Cooperation Skills in Professional Activity of the Military

DOI

10.2991/iccese-19.2019.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cooperation skills; professional culture; the military; airborne troops; officers; soldiers

Abstract

Cooperation skills of the military service members are investigated in this paper in the context of their professional activity. Interpersonal relations in the army have always been under discussion among specialists in education and psychology. Building positive relationships with other people, achieving consensus, supporting other people and generating enthusiasm among group members for accomplishing the goals — all of these are components of the cooperation skills as suggested by the Council of Europe. Cooperation skills are of great importance for the success of the military mission. Positive relations and understanding are necessary in professional communication between officers and soldiers in the conditions of the Extreme North and the Arctic, in the mountainous areas, in peacekeeping operations, in engineering and recovering weapons and armored vehicles, airborne equipment, security systems, etc. Ideas of group dynamics and teamwork based on the cooperation skills are also discussed in the research. To measure cooperation skills, a special questionnaire in the form of self-assessment and peer assessment was offered to officers and soldiers doing their military service by contract in the airborne troops. The research was done by adjuncts of Ryazan Guard Higher Airborne Command School named after General of the Army V. F. Margelov. The descriptors of cooperation skills were taken from Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. The results of the study show that officers indicate rather high cooperation skills, about 86 %, all of them having higher education, aged 27-35 years old. The soldiers have a bit lower level of cooperation skills, about 81%, most of them being rather young, aged 21-25 years old. The authors conclude that cooperation skills and group dynamics among officers and soldiers of the airborne troops are very good for positive and constructive professional activity, which help them fulfil their mission.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Evgeny V. Stepanov
AU  - Maxim V. Andreev
AU  - Vasily V. Gavzov
AU  - Sergey V. Novikov
AU  - Lidia P. Kostikova
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - Cooperation Skills in Professional Activity of the Military
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 487
EP  - 491
SN  - 2352-5398
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