Soldier Perspectives on the Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviors of a Good Teammate

Abstract

Teams are foundational to Army success. These small units allow Soldiers to accomplish tasks of greater scale and complexity than they could on their own. Identifying the attributes of individual Soldiers that relate to teamwork will support the Army's pursuit of a team-based personnel strategy. To identify what teammate characteristics contribute to team functioning, Soldiers listed characteristics they would use to describe a good teammate. Researchers then mapped these terms to the Army Talent Attribute Framework (a list of knowledge, skills, and behaviors; KSBs) and identified several patterns from the mapping. Overall, Soldiers listed dispositions more often than knowledge, skills, behaviors, or abilities. More specifically, they wanted future teammates to be driven to succeed, to model Army Values, and to be intelligent. The Soldiers' point of view gives an early glimpse about what characteristics contribute most to team functioning across domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1202743

Entities

People

  • Alissa C. Fleming
  • Bret A. Homer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Applied Psychology
  • Army
  • Army Personnel
  • Consortiums
  • Frequency
  • Human Performance
  • Human Resources
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Neuropsychology
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Teamwork
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.