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How Information Sharing Improves Organizational Effectiveness in Coalition Operations

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Information sharing is important to the organizational effectiveness of multinational operations. This chapter examines the role of information sharing and its enablers and barriers through the model of organizational effectiveness for NATO Headquarters developed by the NATO Research and Technology Organization, Human Factors and Medicine Research Task Group 163. We suggest that common cultural training and education across all ranks, improved language skills at all levels, and information platforms and opportunities for social networking promote team cohesion and trust and therefore encourage the exchange of information.

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    As the first of these items had a corrected item-total correlation of 0.25, it was deleted from the analyses.

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    Attached is Table A.1 showing the items by which these variables were measured. Unless otherwise stated, all items were assessed on a 5-point Likert-type rating scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. For the construction of the scale in NATO (2012), p. 4-1

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the members of the NATO , RTO HFM Research Task Group 163, who worked in the project Improving Organisational Effectiveness of Coalition Operations. Our article is based on this research project, in which Tibor Szvircsev Tresch and Esther Vogler-Bisig contributed as members. For the report see NATO, 2012 or https://www.cso.nato.int/pubs/rdp.asp?RDP=RTO-TR-HFM-163.

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  1. Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Caserne, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Andrea Rinaldo & Esther Vogler-Bisig

  2. Department of Military Sociology Studies, Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Caserne, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Tibor Szvircsev Tresch

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  1. Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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  2. Military Administrative Studies, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands

    Joseph Soeters

  3. Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Table A.1 Assessment of input factors (NATO 2012, Annex D)
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Rinaldo, A., Vogler-Bisig, E., Szvircsev Tresch, T. (2017). How Information Sharing Improves Organizational Effectiveness in Coalition Operations. In: Goldenberg, I., Soeters, J., Dean, W. (eds) Information Sharing in Military Operations. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42819-2_8

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