The workload and performance relationship in the real world: a study of police officers in a field shooting exercise.
We examined the relationship between perceived workload and performance by evaluating the responses of police officers to 4 different draw-and-shoot tasks in a night field training exercise which was part of their regular training regimen. Sixty-two police officers volunteered to participate. Results demonstrated an associative trend among 3 tasks where shooting performance decreased and workload increased as the tasks became more complex. However, performance on 1 specific shooting task did not correlate with any of the other 3 tasks, and in this 1 exceptional case, insensitivities were observed in which workload increased but performance remained constant.
Oron-Gilad
Tal
T
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. orontal@bgu.ac.il
Szalma
James L
JL
Stafford
Shawn C
SC
Hancock
Peter A
PA
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016495:Police; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D016526:Workload