Case Study Assignment

For this assignment, you are to read the provided article about the 2005 train wreck and chlorine spill in Graniteville, South Carolina. The article illuminates the issues of small-town capacity to handle no-evacuation and hazardous materials.

Article: Train Wreck and Chlorine Spill in Graniteville, South Carolina: Transportation Effects and Lessons in Small-Town Capacity for No-Notice Evacuation by A. E. Dunning and Jennifer L. Oswalt.

Apply what you learned from one of the following concepts described in this unit to discuss the response efforts to the wreck: organizational behavior, emergency preparedness response, or interactions with other agencies. For example, which behaviors or theories do you think were applied? Were they effective? Did they rely too much on the federal government to protect their community? Did they involve other agencies? If so, what were their interactions?

Using the concepts learned in this unit, discuss the leader's concern for people and concern for response. How did the leaders handle these two areas? Was there more concern in one area than in the other? Include the area in which you believe the leader's behavior in this incident aligns with what the text discusses. Summarize your responses in a minimum two-page Word document.

To supplement your discussion and support your conclusions, you may use information from reputable, reliable journal articles, case studies, scholarly papers, and other sources that you feel are pertinent. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in proper APA style.

The purpose of this assignment is for you to apply the concepts and knowledge you learned in this unit on leader behaviors. Also, this provides you with the opportunity to use your skills, expertise, and experience to enrich your response.