PERS PERF & TRAINING
Abstract
This project funds behavioral and social science basic research in areas with high potential to improve personnel selection, training, leader development, human performance, and the human and social dynamics of network operations. Research covers areas such as assessment of practical intelligence as an aptitude that can be measured across job domains; develop principles and potential methods for training and sustaining complex tasks arising from digital, semi-automated, and robotic systems requirements; determine potential methods for faster learning, improved skill retention, and adaptable transfer of training to new tasks; discern likely methods for developing leader adaptability and flexibility as well as for speeding the maturation process; discover and evaluate the basic cognitive principles that underlie effective leader-team performance; better understand the role of emotions in regulating behavior; and improve the match between Soldier skills and their jobs to optimize performance. Research is focused on fundamental issues that will improve the Army's capability to: (1) select, classify, train, and/or develop Soldiers and leaders who are adaptable in novel missions and operational environments, can function effectively in digital, information rich, and semi-autonomous environments, can effectively collaborate in quickly formed groups and when distributed in high stress environments, and possess interpersonal and intercultural skills and attributes relevant to Joint-Service and multi-national operations; (2) accelerate the training of leadership, interpersonal, and emotional skills that traditionally develop over long periods of time and through direct experience; and (3) focus on the human cognitive and social domains - understanding individual, unit, and organizational behavior within the context of complex networked environments that will be essential for synergy between technology and human performance. Research in this project is complementary to and fully coordinated with efforts funded in PE 0602785A (Project 790). The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Defense of Defense Basic Research Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. Work in this project is performed by the US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), Arlington, VA.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 74F_0601102A_1_2040_PB_2012
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