Co-ordinator: Gerry Larsson, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Erna Danielsson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Berit Carlstedt ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swedish National Defence College, Sweden). The Swedish officer in reserve: Filling vacancies or utilizing competences?
• Karen K. Davis ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, Kingston, Canada). Cultural intelligence, command and leadership
• Maria Fors ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Gerry Larsson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swedish National Defence College, Sweden). Should I stay or should I go? - The influence of critical incidents on motivation during international military missions
• Olli Harinen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (National Defence University, Finland). Knut Pipping's WW II study: Infantry company as a society compared to similar later military sociological studies
• Paul Bartone ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (National Defense University, USA). Big Five personality factors, hardiness, and social judgment as predictors of leader performance
• Jörg Erik Noll ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands). Political and military leadership in military reform
• Gerry Larsson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swedish National Defence College, Sweden) Theoretical modelling of contextual influences on leadership
• Stefan Seiler ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Swiss Military Academy at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland). Can leadership behaviour be predicted?
• Keren Shachaf ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Ophir Weinshall ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (IDF's Schools of Leadership Development) and Oren Pizmony-Levy (Indiana University - Bloomington, Department of Sociology). Military leadership and social networks
• Ophir Weinshall ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Henriette Kones-Forte & Eyal Ben-Ari ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Israel). Tactical Leadership, Israeli Ground Forces and the Second Lebanon War: Conceptual Suggestions
• Claude Weber ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) (Ecole Militaire de St-Cyr Coëtquidan, France). How do teenagers turn into military leaders? A three year research focusing on a class of cadets from the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr

The work group has a long history with extensive work periods mixed with low-intensity phases. The last multinational project started at the ERGOMAS conference in Slovenia in 2002. It ended up with a ten-nation study on young military officers' development as leaders. Using a grounded theory approach, ten interviews were performed in each country. The outcome was an internationally published journal article in 2006 (see reference below).

One potential subject for a new joint research effort is a study on demands posed by irregular threats on military leadership during international missions. Irregular threats include terrorism, organized crime, child soldiers, riots, etc. The assumption is that these kinds of threats are more likely in the foreseeable future than large-scale conventional warfare.

The long-term leader of the group has been Professor Paul Bartone, USA . During the last project the leadership was shared with Professor Gerry Larsson, Sweden , who now will carry on as chair.

Last publication from the working group:

• Larsson, G., Bartone, P. T., Bos-Bakx, M., Danielsson, E., Eid, J., Jelusic, L., Johansson, E., Moelker, R., Sjöberg, M., Vrbanjac, A., Bartone, J., Forsythe, G. B., Pruefert, A., & Wachowicz, M. (2006). Leader development in natural context: A grounded theory approach to discovering how military leaders grow. Military Psychology, 18, 69-81.