Assessment of the Current Cultural Awareness and Training for the Air Force Contingency Contracting Officer

Abstract

This study examined the current cultural awareness of contracting officers and the effectiveness of cross-cultural training provided to contracting officers through the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), and their monthly training at the base level. Current training in culture is fairly limited - only 2 days of the 9 day course in contingency contracting is dedicated to cultural training. Nevertheless, a comparison of means of 38 students before and after the DAU CON 234 course showed a statistically significant increase in Cultural Intelligence (CQ) on the cognative and behavioral dimensions, but not on the motivational dimension. In addition, more experienced contracting officers from AFMC and ASC showed no significant difference in the mean scores on CQ. Due to small sample sizes, conflusions are limited, but the results do show promise in the DAU class effectiveness, but more research is needed to provide more conclusive evidence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA488863

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  • Reza A. Grigorian

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems

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  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Contracts
  • Education
  • Information Science
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Training
  • United States

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