20th ICCRTS An Empirical Test of the C2 Agility Model in a Crisis Management Situation Topic 4 (Primary) Experimentation, Metrics, and Analysis Topic 5 Modelling and Simulation Topic 2 Organizational Concepts and Approaches
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Safety organizations face the challenge of developing organizational structures that promote the agility required to deal with the complex demands of crisis management situations. In such situations, a collective adopts a command and control (C2) approach in order to achieve the operational goals. C2 agility is defined as the ability to transition from one approach to another as required by situation complexity (Farrell & Connell, 2010; SAS-065, 2010; SAS-085, 2014). However, one can assume that transition would be facilitated or inhibited by factors within the collective such as team cohesion and events in the crisis situation. Moving from one approach to another does not happen instantaneously and the transition varies as a function of time. The objective of this study is to examine transitions between C2 approaches and the impact of factors such as team cohesion and changes in situation complexity on the process. To observe transitions, the C 3 Fire task environment, a forest firefighting simulation is used. This functional simulation allows the creation of various conditions where a need for transitioning between C2 approaches can arise. All teams received training for the de-conflicted and collaborative C2 approaches before completing two experimental scenarios. Teams were then encouraged to use the approach that they deemed fit to deal with the simulated crisis situation. Resistance was manipulated through team cohesion with the help of confederates either resisting or promoting transitions. Results showed that teams did transition between C2 approaches as a function of situation complexity but that resistance only had a moderated impact on C2 agility. Our results also suggest that team performance was slightly affected by team size and changes in the situation complexity. The findings are further explored and discussed in the context of C2 approach transitions and the C2 Agility model.
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