Table 1
Coding Guidelines, Explanation and Examples.
| DIMENSION | COMPETENCY | EXPLANATION | EXAMPLES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task | Technical/professional | Related to the field of military profession, technology and procedures, etc. | Knowledge of military forces, including procedural, rules, regulations, drill, weaponry, technology (e.g., skills to use map applications for route planning, etc.) |
| Management | Related to management and administration = command | Planning, decision-making, organizing, dealing with resources, giving orders, maintaining discipline (praise and punishment): gathering information about completing a task, dividing tasks, imposing one’s will, etc. | |
| Change | Leadership | Related to leadership, initiating changes, empowering people, etc. | Knowing the personnel, positive influencing, motivating, empowering, inspiring, supporting and guiding development: initiating change via communication, vision or enthusiasm, etc. |
| Conceptual | Related to further goals, wider ability to assess information, predict results, etc. | Seeing the big picture, recognizing patterns, the ability to assess and select excessive information to evaluate trends and changes, foreseeing possible results, etc., taking risks at seeing the possible outcomes based on the existing but also missing information. | |
| Relation | Interpersonal/Social | Related to relations, ability to understand people, relations, and social situations. | Communication, clear self-expression; following the rules of conduct; considering others and their needs in social situations; ability to choose ways of conduct that suit specific people and situations; self-regulation in social situations, establishing and maintaining relations, etc. |
| Intra-personal | Related to the ability to understand and regulate oneself, etc. | Recognizing, understanding, and regulating one’s emotions, wishes and values, analysing and developing oneself, self-regulation (when others are not present), etc. |
Table 2
The Comparison of Proportions of Military Leader Competencies Counted as a Result of the Content Analysis in the Pre- and Post-Course Reserve Platoon Leaders’ Perceptions.
| DIMENSIONS | COMPETENCIES | STUDY 1: PRE-COURSE | STUDY 2: POST-COURSE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | DIMENSION TOTAL % | N | % | DIMENSION TOTAL % | ||
| Task | Technical | 0 | 0.0 | 22.1 | 11 | 1.8 | 12.0 |
| Management | 51 | 22.1 | 64 | 10.2 | |||
| Change | Leadership | 36 | 15.6 | 27.3 | 82 | 13.1 | 18.5 |
| Conceptual | 27 | 11.7 | 34 | 5.4 | |||
| Relations | Interpersonal | 82 | 35.5 | 50.6 | 149 | 23.8 | 69.5 |
| Intrapersonal | 35 | 15.1 | 286 | 45.7 | |||
| Total | 231 | 100 | 626 | 100 | |||
[i] Note. Framework of the content analysis is based on the leader competency model by Säälik et al. (2020).