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As it is illustrated in figure 2, the difference between all
organizations is evident.
Figure 2: Comparison of key crisis competencies in businesses,
self-governments and healthcare facilities
Source: Own processing.
Our results confirmed that the highest quality of crisis
management competencies was achieved by businesses, where
we see the highest score for each of the crisis competencies –
mean was more than 4 for all of them. Self-government
organizations were placed in second place, while in none of the
indicators they reach the mean above 4. Among the analyzed
organizations healthcare facilities are facing the biggest
challenges in crisis management. All organizations in our
research sample reached the lowest values in the key competence
of leadership style.
In times of crisis it is especially important,
because the employees are the key stakeholders in crisis
management, therefore this is the crucial key competence to be
improved in all surveyed organizations.
Research Limitations
The research carried out has several limitations, in particular in
the form of other aspects of crisis management, the consideration
of which would contribute to a better informative value of the
results. A larger and better composition of the research sample
would contribute to a higher validity of research results and
conclusions for crisis management for individual types of
organizations. Another limitation of the research interpretation
is the local nature of the research and the limited research sample
(122 businesses, 216 healthcare facilities and 207 self-
government organizations) in Slovakia.
From a regional point of
view, the results are relevant; their generalization would require
an extension of the sample. Given the fact that the crisis had the
same global cause, interpretations of research can be considered
important regardless of borders.
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