Analyzing the moderating role of cognitive flexibility in the relationship between the characteristics of dynamic environments and future wars on commanders' performance (A case study of Aja air defense integrated command and control network)

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the moderating role of cognitive flexibility in the relationship between the characteristics of dynamic environments and future wars on the performance of operational commanders in the integrated command and control network of Aja air defense.Research method: The research method is mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and the qualitative statistical population includes 12 experts and the quantitative statistical population includes 234 people, and the Karjesi-Morgan table was used for sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire, and the statistical analysis software SPSS24, Amos26 was used to analyze the data.Findings: The model was prepared with 4 dimensions and 30 components. The findings of the statistical tests indicated a good fit of the model and showed that cognitive flexibility positively moderates the relationship between the characteristics of the dynamic environment and future wars on commanders' performance.Conclusion: The results of the present study also showed that the severity of the impact of cognitive flexibility was 0.79, the characteristics of future wars was 0.612, and mission dynamics was 0.587 on performance, and a total of 0.77% of the variance of commanders' performance was explained in the model.

Keywords

• cognitive flexibility
• future wars
• mission environment dynamics