Crisis management: from values to humanitarian technology

Abstract

The article attempts to analyze various management situations of introducing values and humanitarian technologies into management rationality as different, often opposite, ways of crisis management. The contextuality of the meanings of the concept “value” and the connection between value issues and the analysis of various types of rationality are analyzed. The syncretism of values and technologies in anti-crisis management in an organization is described. Value is designated here as an element of corporate culture, as reasons and motives for certain organizational behavior. Here, values are interpreted in an instrumental-rational context. Attention is drawn to the fact that in social and public administration, value can be associated with value rationality and contrasted with technologies, including humanitarian ones. The objectification of values determines the value rationality of crisis management; it is often in demand for the purposes of social consolidation, but the real content of management practice turns out to be instrumental-technical rationality, integrating the value aspect of management through social and humanitarian technologies. It is shown how values and technologies can mutually converge into instrumental-technological rationality.