Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
D.B.A.
Degree Granting Department
Business
Major Professor
Grandon Gill, DBA
Co-Major Professor
Priya Dozier, DBA
Committee Member
Dejun Kong, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Robyn Lord, DBA
Committee Member
Tianaia Yang, Ph.D.
Keywords
Adult learning, Leadership-development, Self-determination, Self-development, U.S. Army, War
Abstract
This qualitative research examines senior U.S. Army officer leaders’ propensity and appreciation to engage in self-devolvement and to develop their junior leaders. The research compares what the Army is prescribing to its leaders with what they are actually saying and doing. It focuses on the decade before the Global War on Terrorism, during the high-tempo war period, and the last ten years. We find that the past 19 years of war have impacted the U.S. Army in countless ways. One is arguably on its most precious capability—its active officer leaders. As the Army rose to war-related challenges, it did so at leader-development costs. Little time, focus, and a battle environment left developing others and oneself low on the list of priorities. Less officer nurturing in the past will have an amplified and harmful effect in the near and distant future; unless, of course, the Army understands its self-development state-of-affairs today and takes action to bolster adult learning. It is no longer a question of if the Army wants to develop its leadership seed-corn, but if they can.
Scholar Commons Citation
Pomper, Stephen D., "The Impact of War on U.S. Army Leader Self-Development Domain in the Early 21st Century" (2020). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/8578
