Strategic Crisis Leadership in Wartime: Developing a Leadership Capability Framework for Resilient Public Sector Organizations

Wartime crises represent one of the most challenging environments for public sector organizations due to extreme uncertainty, resource scarcity, infrastructure disruption, and rapidly changing operational conditions. Under such circumstances, strategic crisis leadership becomes a decisive factor in maintaining governmental continuity and strengthening organizational resilience. Despite extensive research on crisis management and public administration, relatively little attention has been devoted to developing an integrated leadership framework specifically designed for wartime governance. This conceptual paper addresses this gap by proposing a Strategic Crisis Leadership Framework based on Strategic Leadership Theory, Sensemaking Theory, High Reliability Organization (HRO) Theory, and Organizational Resilience Theory. The framework identifies five core leadership capabilities: strategic decision-making, adaptive leadership, crisis communication, collaborative governance, and organizational learning. It argues that these capabilities collectively improve governmental resilience by enhancing preparedness, coordination, adaptive capacity, and continuity of public services during wartime crises. The paper contributes to the literature by extending crisis leadership theory into wartime public administration and offers practical guidance for policymakers and senior public managers.

کلیدواژه ها:

Strategic Crisis Leadership ، Organizational Resilience ، Wartime Crisis Management ، Public Administration ، Adaptive Leadership ، Crisis Governance