Leadership development : an empirical study of effectiveness of the leadership development program at The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy and its impact on preparing officers to execute leadership in today's conflicts and the conflicts in the years (2024)

GROUP DYNAMICS, PROFESSIONAL STEREOTYPES AND DOMINANCE–THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS IN HOSPITALS

Endre Sjøvold

This paper discusses group development in real life naval groups and groups of physicians in hospitals. In this study groups facing identical challenges under comparable environmental conditions are analyzed. The study covers groups from two different settings: military groups on maneuvers and medical groups during important strategic planning processes in hospitals. The setup for observation, two maneuvers for the military groups and strategic decisions with high impact and tight time schedules in the medical groups, emphasize the groups' ability to make the best decisions under rapidly changing conditions and/or high levels of stress. Shifts in role structure, predominant interpersonal behavior, and emergent dynamic patterns are discussed in the light of the SPGR theory and method. SPGR is an acronym for "Systemizing the Person-Group Relation" (Sjovold, 2007). The paper attempts to explain the dynamics of the social field observed. Both direct observation and peer re...

Boyd’s OODA Loop

2020 •

Chet Richards

The concepts of the late US Air Force Colonel John R. Boyd have influenced military thought in profound ways, from the design of modern fighter aircraft to the tactics used by the US Marine Corps in both Gulf Wars. This paper describes the best known aspect of his strategic thought, the OODA “loop,” and how practitioners in war and business can use the loop to implement a framework that has proven successful since the time of Sun Tzu. John Richard Boyd (1927 – 1997) var jagerpilot i United States Air Force og senere rådgiver for Pentagon. Hans teorier har hatt stor innflytelse i militærvesen, næringsliv, sport og jus. Necesse 2020, Vol 5, Issue 1, sidetall...... Copyright 2020, Sjøkrigsskolen, DOI: .....

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Two teams - the power of group dynamics

2020 •

Stein Forsdahl

Personality and Mental Health Attitudes Among US Army ROTC Cadets

2014 •

Pamela Holtz

With the current military mental health crisis, it is important to understand the role of the leader in military mental health. First, the impact of military leader behaviors on the well-being of military personnel is reviewed. Next, the role of leader attitudes as a precursor to leader behaviors is discussed. The relation of leader behaviors to leader personality using the NEO Five Factor Model (FFM) is reviewed, as well as the relation of prejudicial attitudes to the NEO FFM personality factors. A research project is described that attempted to draw these concepts together, assessing the NEO FFM personality dimensions and mental health attitudes of US Army ROTC cadets, the future leaders of the US Army. No significant relations were observed between NEO FFM personality traits and mental health attitudes, even after controlling for Impression Management. Also, the predicted positive correlation between positive mental health attitudes and Impression Management was not found. These ...

Journal of Media and Information Warfare

Distributed Swarming and Stigmergic Effects on ISIS Networks: OODA Loop Model

2017 •

Teodor Mitew

The stigmergic swarming of digital media environments with propaganda and personal communication made the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS, IS, ISIL and Daesh) one of the strongest terror groups in the world. This study aims to identify the digital manoeuvre warfare tactics deployed by ISIS to survive the degrading operation initiated by its adversaries. In this paper, we emphasise that the information operations of terror organisations are not limited to a certain application or communication platform. Instead, the emergence of anonymous platforms (e.g., Justpase, Sendvid) and encryption communication applications (e.g., Telegram, WhatsApp) has enabled ISIS's information operations and helped the organisation to maintain its networking structure. This paper examines the role played by anonymous platforms in ISIS' operations from an information-centric warfare perspective. The theoretical framework is derived from manoeuver warfare based on John Boyd's OODA loop theory. The data collection involves a digital ethnography approach, concentrated on tracing and observing ISIS' digital activities across anonymous platforms and encrypted communication channels. The study suggests that the failure of ISIS' adversaries in operating inside the OODA loop of ISIS led to the organisation's survival and proliferation of its information operations.

Cognitive readiness in network-centric operations

Thomas Balkin

Leadership Quarterly

Leader development and the dark side of personality

2011 •

Peter Harms

A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review?

2003 •

Chet Richards

Dynamics Within and Outside the Lab. Procedings from the 6th GRASP conference, Lund University, May 2008

2009 •

Stefan Jern

Since May 1998 Scandinavian group researchers and social psychologists have met bi-annually for what has to be called the GRASP conference. GRASP originally stood for ”Group as Paradox”. The first ...

Small Group Research

Leadership Development: Leadership Emergence to Leadership Effectiveness

2019 •

judy goldenberg

This study aimed to understand how leadership effectiveness of the trainer in a leadership development program can influence emerging leaders’ development and effectiveness. We hypothesized that the trainer’s leadership effectiveness would be a boundary condition. In this two year longitudinal field study, military cadets’ leadership effectiveness from their emergence as informal peer leaders during basic training through the officer training course (OTC) to their formal leadership roles as active duty officers was followed. The sample included 854 cadets and their 72 trainers. We found that cadets’ effectiveness during OTC mediated the relationship between informal leadership emergence during basic training and their subsequent effectiveness as formal leaders. Furthermore, trainers’ effectiveness moderated the relationship between cadets’ informal leadership emergence and effectiveness in OTC. Results indicate that informal emerging leaders are more likely to develop into highly ef...