Redefining Leadership Roles in Managing Crises in Organisations: A Systematic Literature Review

Crises strike when least expected. Most organisations have collapsed as a result of crises situations. Essential resources including lives been lost in the wake crises. Leadership essential roles to play ensuring that effect were minimized organisations. make strategic decisions, shape organization culture and facilitate resource allocation for execution activities survival organisation. Although unpredictable, vary nature magnitude impact, it was important put place general comprehensive plan mitigate severity aftermath. This paper systematically reviewed articles on crisis management leadership from JSTOR Elsevier open databases. The not limited time period, allow search. study used systematic literature review. A total 815 Journal initially identified, 633 which dropped they out context, while 182 selected. further 140 found inappropriate, leaving 42 final attempted identify integrate management, different thereby providing more elaborate source could guide database various stakeholders. results this showed majority articles, 40.47%, consisted an average four eight identified. None comprehensively addressed most managing