LEADERSHIP MODELS AND EFFICIENCY IN DECISION CRISIS SITUATIONS, DURING DISASTERS

This article explains how an effective leadership is made on a team during an emergency, during a decision crisis in the context of a disaster. From the approach of the process, we analyze some variables such as flexibility, value congruence, rationality, politicization, and quality of design. To achieve that, we made a fi eld work with the information obtained from the three Emergency headquarters deployed by the Chilean Armed Forces, due to the effects of the 8.8 earthquake on February 27th 2010. The data is analyzed through econometric technics. The results suggested that the original ideas and the rigorous analysis are the keys to secure the quality of the decision. It also, made possible to unveil the fact, that to have efficiency in operations in a disaster, it requires a big presence of a vision, mission, and inspiration about a solid and pre-existing base of goals and motivations. Finally, we can fi nd the support to the relationship between kinds of leadership and efficiency on crisis decision-making process of the disaster and opens a space to build a decision making theoretic model

La importancia de los estilos de liderazgo en la calidad de las unidades académicas universitarias

The aim of the research is to explore the relationship between the style of leadership and the quality of university careers. We work with a sample of 42 academic units belonging to four Chilean universities that carry out their work in careers in the field of science, engineering, business, health and humanities. The results show that there is evidence to relate the style of transformational leadership with the quality of careers. The styles of transformational leadership, transactional and passive avoidance, together, explain 65.6% of the quality of university careersEl objetivo de la investigación es explorar la relación entre el estilo de liderazgo y la calidad de las carreras universitarias. Se trabaja con una muestra de 42 unidades académicas pertenecientes a cuatro universidades chilenas que llevan a cabo su labor en las carreras del ámbito de las ciencias, ingeniería, negocios, salud y humanidades. Los resultados muestran que existe evidencia para relacionar el estilo de liderazgo transformacional con la calidad de las carreras. Los estilos de liderazgo transformacional, transaccional y pasivo evitador, en conjunto, explican el 65,6% de la calidad de las carreras universitaria