REPORT OF WORKING GROUP ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR UNDER CONDITIONS OF MILITARY SERVICE,

Abstract

Contents: Increasing the effectiveness of combat effort; Personnel policies and research; Mobilization of manpower; Demographic aspects; Human skills and capacities; National character; Mobilization and national community; Optimum utilization; Transition from civilian to military life; Rationale of selection and classification; Psychological and psychiatric selection and classification; Physical examinations and standards; Sensory abilities, Selection and classification of skills; Preinduction aptitude and occupational evaluation; Selection, classification, and assignment of officers, specialists; and civilian employes; Management practices in personnel operations; Sample problems in adjusting to military life; Military training; Motivation, incentives, and discipline in training; Content methods, and management of training; Utilization of military manpower; Motivation for and adaptation to combat; Rotation and redistribution; Adaptation; Geography, climate, and indigenous population; Leadership; Safety; Human engineering; Proficiency measurement and job analysis; The military group; Organization; Primary groups in stress of combat.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jun 01, 1951
• Accession Number: AD0618568

Entities

People

• Gordon Barclay
• Jack Buel
• Percival Eaton Mcdowell
• Sidney Adams

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Classification
• Engineering
• Human Behavior
• Human Factors Engineering
• Indigenous Population
• Job Analysis
• Leadership
• Management Personnel
• Manpower
• Military Training
• Mobilization
• Motivation
• Organizational Structure
• Personnel Management
• Physical Examination (Medicine)
• Training

Readers

• Military Leadership and Professional Education.
• Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
• Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.