Holenweger, Michael
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Strategic communication and contemporary European security
Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalisation and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. The protocols of modern warfare, including targeted killing, enhanced interrogations, mass electronic surveillance and the virtualisation of war have changed the moral landscape and brought diverse new interactions with politics, law, religion, ethics and technology. This book addresses how and why the nature of security has changed and what this means for the security actors involved and the wider society. Offering a crossdisciplinary perspective on concepts, meanings and categories of security, the book brings together scholars and experts from a range of disciplines including political, military studies and security studies, political economy and international relations. Contributors reflect upon new communication methods, postmodern concepts of warfare, technological determinants and cultural preferences to provide new theoretical and analytical insights into a changing security environment and the protocols of war in the 21st century.
Increasing resilience through courageous leadership
Leadership changes. Today, managers are expected to be quicker and more agile, more willing to take risks, more confident in dealing with complexity and more tolerant of ambiguity (Gebhardt et al. 2015; Roche et al. 2014). In addition to these challenges, they are responsible for their own performance and health and share responsibility for those of their employees. This does not leave the health of managers untouched (Nielsen and Daniels 2012). Research shows that stressed managers are less able to support their employees, which in turn affects employee stress levels (Roche et al. 2014). This makes it all the more important for managers to deal with the issue of resilience in order to be able to keeping an eye on resources and being able to stand up again after inevitable setbacks and not pass the pressure on to the employees unfiltered. On the other hand, due to the fast pace of life and the necessity to promote innovation and creativity in companies, today it is also increasingly important, that managers give up power and decision-making authority, let go of control, allow employees room to grow and promote initiative and courage.