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Abstract
Personnel in many professions must remain “ready” to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipment maintenance, or – less commonly – data from wearable devices that can be difficult to interpret as well as raising privacy concerns. A widely applicable, simple psychometric measure of perceived readiness would be invaluable in generating rapid evaluations of current capability directly from personnel. To develop this measure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 770 Australian military personnel. The 32-item Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale (ARMS) demonstrated good model fit, and comprised nine factors: overall readiness; physical readiness; physical fatigue; cognitive readiness; cognitive fatigue; threat-challenge (i.e., emotional/coping) readiness; skills-and-training readiness; group-team readiness, and equipment readiness. Readiness factors were negatively correlated with recent stress, current negative affect and distress, and positively correlated with resilience, wellbeing, current positive affect and a supervisor’s rating of solider readiness. The development of the ARMS facilitates a range of new research opportunities: enabling quick, simple and easily interpreted assessment of individual and group readiness.
Highlights
Maintaining capabilities spanning physical, cognitive, emotional, skill and team domains are common to many professions, for example: construction (Yip and Rowlinson, 2006; Nahrgang et al, 2011); nursing (Kuiper and Pesut, 2004); medicine/surgery (Elfering et al, 2017); sales/marketing (McFarland et al, 2016), and many more (Bakker and Demerouti, 2007)
then the demonstration of a factor structure that was largely consistent with expectations
the factor structure developed in Study 1 was supported
Summary
Maintaining capabilities spanning physical, cognitive, emotional, skill and team domains are common to many professions, for example: construction (Yip and Rowlinson, 2006; Nahrgang et al, 2011); nursing (Kuiper and Pesut, 2004); medicine/surgery (Elfering et al, 2017); sales/marketing (McFarland et al, 2016), and many more (Bakker and Demerouti, 2007). The majority of this balancing – through careful management, planning, training and recruitment – remains a challenging, time-demanding and slow (or infrequent) task, with diverse approaches and methods deployed in different contexts (Chuang et al, 2016; Der-Martirosian et al, 2017; Shah et al, 2017; Sharma et al, 2018) Against this backdrop, offering a brief, psychometrically validated, interpreted and widely applicable assessment of acute performance readiness may substantially improve the performance planning of personnel and their managers. Personnel must remain ready to perform their job role, across a wide array of capabilities, often for prolonged periods of time
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