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<p>Research exploring the effectiveness of joint military teams lacks the empirical robustness found in  similar multicultural team research from the business domain. This research study broadens the study of effective  military teams through an assessment of the factors that influence a joint team's effectiveness by capitalizing on the  business and psychological communities' exploration of successful team performance. Specifically, in three  empirical studies, this research examines several key elements of poor team effectiveness identified by the business  community, namely cultural differences and personality stereotypes. Study One examined cultural orientation and  service personality using a survey instrument. The results show that cultural and personality differences exist at  significant levels between the services. The second study examined team information sharing processes in a wargame  environment composed of homogeneous and heterogeneous four-person teams. The results revealed that participants  in heterogeneous teams, cued to the presence of cultural and personality differences among team members, performed  as well as homogeneous teams. The third study expands the knowledge space of the team experiment by developing  an agent-based model replicating the wargame. The model accurately represented the experimental data, confirming  our hypothesis that computational models coded with actual data sets from human experimentation are more robust  than models coded with notional data sets. The results demonstrate that joint team effectiveness improves by  incorporating methodologies used in the business and simulation science communities.
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<br>Subjects: War games.; Cultural Orientation; Personality; Military Transformation; Joint Team; Agent-based Modeling</div>
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Burnett, Steven F.</div>
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