Suhtautuminen kriisinhallintaoperaatioihin jakaa maavoimia

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• Jussi-Pekka Niemelä

Abstrakti

This article focuses on the culture of the recruitment and selection for the international crisis management operations within the Finnish Defence Forces. e aim of the study was to understand the recruitment and selection process of personnel experienced by the applicants and recruiters. e data was collected through semi-structured interviews from nine (N=9) army o cers served in the UNIFIL III (Lebanon) during years 2013–2014 and through an open questionnaire in 2015 from the recruitment personnel of the human resource (HR) sections (N=21) located in the all Bridages of the Finnish Army.The results showed that the current recruitment process requires the applicant’s activity and ability to take advantages of the opportunities found in the process. In addition, the study showed that personnel attitudes towards crisis management tasks can be interpreted to re ect two separate and distinct organizational subcultures; crisis-management-orientation appeared to be encouraging and supporting applicants, while domestic-orientation appeared for them as resistance. In conclusion, to ensure the quality of the recruitment 1) the recruitment process should be made more open and transparent, 2) the ow of information should be straightforward, 3) the applications of the selection criteria should be clari ed as well as, 4) di erent approaches towards crisis management need to be harmonized. is article is based on CPT Niemelä’s Master’s thesis on Finnish National Defence University in 2016.