The Collection of Manager's Response to Crisis (Essay Sample)

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Managers Response to Crisis
Managers have individual responsibilities to stakeholders when a crisis arises. These crises can be categorized into; natural disasters, epidemics, pandemics, and wars. Examples of some of these crises are; the Liberia Ebola, HIV/AIDS, cholera, wars, flooding, and hunger. The need to inform managers how to respond best to the emerging crisis is a motivating factor in studying how managers responded to previous disasters.
By drawing experience from how managers in Liberia handled the Ebola epidemic, managers learn that they have to consider changing on leadership approach. For example, Liberia’s hierarchical leadership entrenchment led to the amplification of the EVD epidemic (Nyenswah et al 194). Such a leadership type was deemed unfit to counter the epidemic due to delays of vital information and strategies. Therefore, today's leaders should ensure that the leadership organization is good enough to cope with such an epidemic.
Managers and stakeholders should build a special task force whose primary purpose is to make decisions and strategizing. The task force should give specific measures taken to combat the epidemic. For example, the task force build in Liberia eased decision-making and improved the way the government strategized (Nyenswah et al 194). They involved all the stakeholders and eventually managed to flatten the EVD curve.
Managers can also learn that the implementation of non-pharmaceutical and mitigation measures is essential in controlling the spread of infection. For example, during the 1918 Influenza pandemic in US cities, mitigation measures such as bans of public gathering, school closures, isolation, and physical distancing were adopted (Ali et al.). These measures were of great significance in reducing the spread of the influenza virus.