Intersectionality and Crisis Management

<p><em>Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity</em> aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders and managers navigate a complex and networked environment of policy-making and action frequently occurring in real time under constant media exposure. The pervasive availability of this news on all platforms and devices produces a lingering anxiety about the inevitability of danger. Consequently crisis affords a time-sensitive exploration of management practices and sheds a critical spotlight on deficiencies that may yield novel approaches to doing business.</p><p>As the book engages contributing authors who are foremost in their field it also includes practitioners students and junior scholars in a creative new discourse about equity. Bringing these diverse voices together in one volume presents a unique opportunity to generate new insights. Intersectionality provides a framework for understanding how categorizations of people drive social constructs of discrimination and oppression. Each chapter covers a different subject – exploring intersectionality in healthcare nonprofit management and human resources – and is accompanied by discussion questions. The book provides something for the classroom for practitioners and for scholars who want to include more intersectional thinking into their work.</p><p>Chapters 1 and 6 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>