Leader and Team Adaptability in Multinational Coalitions (LTAMC): An International Research Project

Abstract

Multinational coalitions are a complicated assembly of leaders, teams, cultures, networks, and collaborative systems (Sutton & Pierce, 2003). This complicated assemblage of coalition partners will be required to perform as a team in complex environments that place high demands on the command and control (C2) of forces. Complex environments make adaptive performance more critical than ever. The development of adaptive performance in multinational coalitions can be rapidly advanced by the collaboration of researchers in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Partnership for Peace (PfP) nations. Such a group has been established under NATO's Headquarters, Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT), Futures and Engagement Branch through the Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) program. Led by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), the project is titled Leader and Team Adaptability in Multinational Coalitions or LTAMC. The group also operates concurrently as a NATO Research and Technology Organization (RTO) Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel exploratory team on a project titled Adaptability in Coalition Teamwork or ACT. The combined CD&E HFM effort follows the CD&E process and is reported as a project for both CD&E and HFM. This paper presents the LTAMC/ACT program of research. Theoretical frameworks and models integrating culture to multinational teams and team leadership are limited, but growing. The need exists to leverage what is known about culture, teams, training, and leadership in order to provide a model of coalition teamwork and develop methods and information systems that recognize the importance of political, economic, social, and environmental factors in addition to military strategy (NATO, 1991, 1999).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA464140

Entities

People

  • Janet L. Sutton
  • Victor Edelmann

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Nato
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control