The Effect of Personality Style and Team Organization on Team Performance

Abstract

The continual advancement of technology and the increasing complexity of the operational environments for the military have necessitated the proliferation of team-based operations. The use of personality styles is one possible way to go beyond normal demographics when attempting to predict team performance. This study provides an analysis of two personality styles and their potential for predicting team performance. The tenets of Human Systems Integration (HSI) state that it is critical to view the human as a component of any system. This study examined the effect of team personality style on team performance. Additionally, the effect of team command and control organization was examined by building upon the Office of Naval Research's Adaptive Architecture for Command and Control (A2C2) project. The results of the study were inconclusive. There was no significant difference between the performance of teams high in conscientiousness and high in agreeableness (A+C+) and the performance of teams low in conscientiousness and low in agreeableness (A-C-). Furthermore, there was no difference between teams utilizing different command and control organizations. The results of the study reveal that, currently, A+C+ and A-C- personality styles are not viable as selection tools many possible personality styles is required.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA475877

Entities

People

  • Timothy W. Hannen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Military Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Statistical Analysis
  • United States

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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