The Assessment Center for Future Professional Officers in the Swiss Army

Abstract

Each future professional officer of the Swiss armed forces has to pass an assessment center even before he starts his studies at the Military College. During this three-day procedure his personality characteristics and social behavior are observed and appraised by several trained assessors/observersThe paper describes the organizational and scientific bases of this procedure, it explains which behavioral dimensions are used in which exercise and gives an account of the different steps of the assessment process. It ends with a description of the main evaluation results and with an indication of possible trends.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010348

Entities

People

  • Hubert Annen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Feedback
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Resources
  • Observation
  • Observers
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Personnel Selection
  • Quality Control
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Symposia
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
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