Date of Award

5-2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Human Resource Mgt

Department

Human Resource Management

First Advisor

Dr. Robert S. Kelley

Second Advisor

Dr. Patricia B. Strait

Third Advisor

Dr. James L. Narduzzi

Abstract

This research investigation seeks to identify a leadership model for Fire Battalion Chief comprised of a set of theoretical dimensions of leadership that are required of a Fire Department Battalion Chief to successfully lead their personnel over the next 10 years. This paper also examines the roots of corporatism at national and local levels and demonstrates how the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) had significant levels of influence on policy making in the United States of America. However, at a local level longstanding corporatist partnerships between unions such as FMU and local associations like CACFOA began to break down as a financial crisis arose and management took a more proactive approach. Corporatist structures at a national level, though, remained and it was not until the Labor government's second term of office that these national structures were overhauled following a White Paper and legislation. (Christiansson, 1992)

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