TITLE:
How Leadership Impacts FEMA’s Whole Community Approach during Emergency Management’s Preparedness
AUTHORS:
Robb Shawe, Ian R. McAndrew
KEYWORDS:
The Whole Community, Emergency Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Leadership, Preparedness Phase
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.4,
April
17,
2023
ABSTRACT: Disasters stipulate unfortunate remembrances of susceptibilities
within society. Disasters often suddenly affect communities and result in the
untimely loss of functions and social systems. Therefore, formulating
preparedness policies and awareness of uncertainty is essential when addressing
emergency management. The success of the emergency management approach within
the community often relies on the leadership structure imposed. Leadership also
helps to promote emergency management practices and provide new reserves to
support emergency preparedness and funds for sustainability and resilience.
This study concentrates on the whole community principle in handling disasters
and emergencies. The whole community management strategy further maps preparedness-related
capacities and community engagement in disaster control. Partnership with
participants across the entire society program and efficient community
management can result in significant disaster preparedness and response. The
research will constitute a quantitative methodology, specifically, a survey on
members of the Safeguard Iowa Partnership (SIP), an emergency management firm,
on the organization’s whole community emergency leadership strategy. The Whole
Community leadership model in emergency management proved its effectiveness
through the survey conducted in SIP. Data will also be collected using the
Organizational Leadership Evaluation Survey (OLA) from all the SIP members from
various economic sectors. The OLA has six features that help gauge the
organization’s leadership strength. The quantitative methodology suggested an
association between the perceived essence of Whole Community management and the
perceived efficiency of FEMA’s role in the emergency management preparedness
process.