Retrospect of competency researches and prospect of its application for military flight personnel
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1007-6239.2015.01.019
- VernacularTitle:胜任特征研究及在军事飞行人员中的应用前景
- Author:
Liu YANG
1
;
Huamiao SONG
1
Author Information
1. 空军航空医学研究所,北京,100142
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Military personnel;
Adaptation,psychology;
Competency;
Flight personnel;
Review
- From:
Chinese Journal of Aerospace Medicine
2015;26(1):69-76
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To review the development of competency in various occupations,and to prospect the application of competency research in the selection,training,assessment.etc.for military flight personnel.Literature resource and selection The related articles published at home and abroad.Literature quotation Fifty-one references are cited.Literature synthesis The widely accepted concept of competency is the potential or the deep personal characteristics that distinguished the persons with outstanding achievements from the others who were with mediocre performance in a work (or organization,culture).The main models of competency are iceberg model,onion model and pyramid model.Since the concept of competency was proposed,it has been widely concerned and deeply researched in many fields of China and abroad for its function in identifying the deep personal characteristics of excellent and general staff's occupation performance.The main research methods are behavioral event interview,questionnaire survey,situational judgment tests,focus group interview and job analysis.The military flight occupation highly requires personnel psychological traits.Related work of competency has been applied and got favorable and pratical results carried out and good actual effect has obtained in this field now.But it still can't compltetly satisfy the actual needs.Study on the competency of military flight personnel can provide theoretical basis of index system for psychological selection,psychological training,annual psychological assessment and daily psychological selfmaintenance.It will actualize the expectation on application of competency models and offer the help to finally establish "selection and placement system","assessment and training system" and "security and protection system".Conclusions For the higher performance fighter aircraft required,researching on competency and building aircraft and occupation orientated traits are signifying much,and the results would play a momentous role in flight personnel selection,placement,mental training and psychological health care.
