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Managers Who Thrive

The Use of Workplace Social Support by Middle Managers During Hurricane Katrina

by A. Kevin Nourse
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Publisher:  Dissertation
Pub date:  2011
Pages:  270
ISBN-10:  1599423839
ISBN-13:  9781599423838
Categories:  Business  Business & Economics  Psychology

Abstract

This qualitative study explores how middle managers who thrived during Hurricane Katrina used their workplace social support systems. An emphasis was placed on identifying the sources and types of support received before, during, and after the Katrina crisis.

Significant challenges exist today for organizations on the basis of societal, political, environmental, and technological trends. Among those trends are predictions of greater numbers and intensities of weather-related crises triggered in part by global weather pattern shifts and global warming. These challenges create a compelling need for leaders to effectively plan for and manage crises to assure organizational survival. Middle managers, in particular, play a critical role in terms of planning for and recovering organizational functioning after a crisis. Yet relatively little is known about how they subjectively experience adversity and receive social support in the workplace. This study draws upon three bodies of literature including thriving, social support and crisis management.

The participants in this study were 14 middle managers employed by organizations in the greater New Orleans area impacted in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. Industries represented include health care, higher education, seaports, and defense contracting. Participants were nominated by a senior leader in their organization based on criteria for thriving. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews about participants' experiences before, during and after the Katrina crisis and the types of social support they received from each of five workplace sources. After identifying two core experiences for each participant, the data were coded and analyzed to determine the workplace sources and type of received social support. Sixteen themes were identified that explained how participants received support from leaders, peers, subordinates, other internal as well as external supports. Four support patterns were identified based on the most important source of support for the participants. These support source patterns included a peer-focused, leader-focused, subordinate-focused and leader-external focused. Role modeling was identified as a source of received support for some participants as well as the role of work teams in providing social network support. Practical implications of the study findings were identified along with suggestions for future research.

About the Author

Dr. Nourse is a research-based executive coach, organization development consultant, and trainer/facilitator with nearly 20 years of progressive experience in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. He focuses his practice on helping leaders, teams, and organizations become more resilient and innovative.

He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and has experience working with leaders in the areas of leadership development, career planning and transition, influence, risk-taking, and strategic thinking. Kevin’s consulting experience includes organizational assessments, competency modeling, learning strategy development, retreat design, and team effectiveness. As a trainer, Kevin has facilitated training for a wide range of audiences on negotiation, diversity, career management, team dynamics, influence, risk-taking, and leadership. Among Kevin’s current and past clients are the American Association of Port Authorities, American Psychological Association, AOL, AstraZeneca, Cisco Systems, Eli Lilly & Company, Fannie Mae, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Palm Beach, The Nature Conservancy, and the US Food and Drug Administration. Kevin has an MA degree in human resource development and an MA in human and organization systems in addition to training from Coach University and Coaches Training Institute. Kevin is qualified to administer the CCL Benchmarks assessment, the MBTI, as well as the Hay Group emotional intelligence instrument.

Prior to launching his practice, Kevin worked as a human resource director for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. He has professional experience as a CPA, financial analyst, training manager, and software developer.



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