RELIABILITY OF JOINT ACTIVITY OF MEMBERS OF TANK CREWS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the reliability of the joint operation of tank crews members of the armed forces of Ukraine through the prism of specific features of the activities of specialists forming tank crews. The study carried out by the author has revealed a number of qualities that, according to respondents answers, are important in ensuring the reliability of the individual. The representation consisted of tank crews servicemen who, since 2014, directly participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. The author concludes that the reliability of the members of the tank crew has a group nature and is determined by the contribution of not a single person, but the crew as a whole. It is noted that in relation to the joint activity the reliability of the tank crew provides the choice of adequate facilities for organizing effective joint activities and proposes an algorithm for grading factors of group reliability of members of tank crews in conditions of joint activities. The results obtained during the study will be used by the author to refine the program of empirical study of the reliability of the members of the tank crew in the future. It is remarked that the group character of the activities of tankers can be considered as one of the mechanisms that affect reliability and influences the essential characteristics that must be taken into account when investigating the characteristics of the reliability of members of tank crews. On the basis of consideration of the characteristics of reliability in the psychological science and the analysis of the features of the joint activities of tankers identified as a result of the empirical study, author’s criteria for the reliability of the members of the tank crews of the armed forces of Ukraine were proposed.