Emergency Management Governance: Examining Leadership Styles across Cultures

• Main Author: Dean Karalekas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Sun Yat-sen University 2018-04-01
• Series: Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal
• Subjects: leadership; Taiwan; AsiaPacific; emergency management; corporate culture; teamwork; management; culture; Asia-Pacific
• Online Access: http://rpb115.nsysu.edu.tw/var/file/131/1131/img/2374/CCPS4(1)-Karalekas.pdf

While Taiwan is a modern culture, it is also a deeply traditional one, and Taiwan’s public administrators often struggle to implement new and innovative disaster response programs in the nation that accommodate these two disparate influences. This research examines leadership styles that are employed in Taiwan with those used in Japan, as well as in the West. Much of the research on leadership styles across cultures is being conducted in the field of business administration, which has value for public administrators as well. In order to understand the qualities required of effective emergency managers in East Asia, particularly Taiwan, and how these qualities differ from those of emergency managers in the West, it is essential to take a culturalist perspective on the issue.