Innovative Leader Development: Evaluation of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program

doi:10.7249/RR504

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DOI	10.7249/RR504
报告编号	RR-504-A
	Innovative Leader Development: Evaluation of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program
	Susan G. Straus; Michael G. Shanley; Carra S. Sims; Bryan W. Hallmark; Anna Rosefsky Saavedra; Stoney Trent; Sean Duggan
	2014
出版年	2014
页数	164
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	The Asymmetric Warfare Group offers the Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program (AWALP) — a 10-day course designed to enhance adaptive performance in leaders and promote innovative solutions in training in support of unified land operations. This report describes results of a systematic evaluation of AWALP, offers recommendations to improve the course, and provides recommendations for ongoing evaluation of AWALP and other courses or events that address adaptive performance and acquisition of other intangible skills. The study used a pretest-posttest design and collected data from 104 students who participated in AWALP. Results show substantial improvement in training outcomes, including students' self-efficacy for being adaptive and leading adaptive teams and knowledge of course concepts. Graduates also reported that they were applying course concepts on the job after returning to their units. In addition, students had exceptionally favorable reactions to AWALP and remained extremely positive about the course three months after graduation. Results indicate few needs for improvement in the course; the most important area to address is challenges in applying concepts on the job because of the command climate and entrenched leadership. Recommendations for ongoing evaluation focus on obtaining additional measures of adaptive performance, particularly to establish the impact of AWALP on subsequent job performance. The current success of AWALP suggests that its approach to training might be usefully expanded in the Army, and the authors discuss strategies to achieve broader dissemination. Finally, the authors describe how the methods used in this study might be applied to evaluating related training in other contexts.
英文关键词	Educational Program Evaluation Military Education and Training Asymmetric Warfare Organizational Leadership Development
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/3877
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Susan G. Straus,Michael G. Shanley,Carra S. Sims,et al. Innovative Leader Development: Evaluation of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program:RAND Corporation,2014.