Metacognitive, Social and Interpersonal Skills and Aptitudes in Officer Performance With Distributed Teams

Abstract

Military services, Police, Fire Brigade, Medical Emergency Teams and various other task cohesive groups require supervisory management to ensure that goals are met in a manner which is flexible, reduces risk, is resource economical, and promotes team development. Many of the military and emergency teams require leadership via mediated communication because different elements of the team perform functions in different locations. There is adequate evidence from research on the use of different types of media, with different rules of interaction, with different groups and tasks that performance varies significantly in process and outcome terms between face-to-face and mediated communication variants (Anderson, Newlands, Mullin and Fleming, 1996; Archer, 1990; Christensen and Fjermestad, 1997; El-Shinnawy, and Vinze, 1997; Hollingshead, 1996a, 1996b; Valacich and Schwenk, 1995; Lim and Benbasat, 1997; Reid, Ball, Morley and Evans, 1997), with performance generally poorer in mediated (non face-to-face) situations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010371

Entities

People

  • Malcolm J. Cook
  • Willem Klumper

Organizations

  • University of Abertay Dundee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Military Operations
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Resource Management
  • Social Psychology
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.