The modern battlefield has shown that experiences that personnel encounter are crucial for the organisation and units to learn from. This is done with a bottom-up culture where the organisation learns from the unit’s experiences linked to enemy behaviour and the use of own working methods. By adapting to these experience units can be allowed to facilitate tactical adaptation on the battlefield. A method to gather these experiences are debriefings. They are used in different forms, where psychological debriefings are advocate in organisations that operate in stressful environments.  The purpose of this study is to explore the Swedish army’s methods of debriefing and with support of theories based on psychological debriefing and group development explain the potential of a debriefing. The study uses a qualitative case studies, by using focus groups to gather empirical data to explore the actual outcome of the methods used on smaller units in the Swedish army.  This study contributes with a deeper understanding of how debriefing methods are used and can be used to reach efficiency with the implementation of working methods and emotional aspects within the individual. With this efficiency and support from the organisation, the units can be able to reach synergy within the group and therefore gain the ability for tactical adaptation on a modern battlefield.

Det här arbetet har undersökt hur övergången till ett värnpliktssystem påverkar det organisatoriska lärandet. Syfte har varit att undersöka om den värnpliktiges erfarenheter, främst vad gäller tekniska system, omhändertas i övergången till ett värnpliktssystem. Teorin som använts till det här arbetet är en modell som beskriver hur individens kunskap blir till organisatorisk kunskap och bygger på fem olika lärcykler framtagen av Sanchez. Metoden har varit att använda befintlig forskning inom området organisatoriskt lärande och ta fram faktorer som bör finnas med i en ideal process för att omhänderta värnpliktigas erfarenheter. Den ideala processen har sedan jämförts med hur processen för att omhänderta den värnpliktiges erfarenheter ser ut i Försvarsmakten. Resultatet av det här arbetet är att en övergång till ett värnpliktssystem bedöms ha en liten påverkan om den metod som Försvarsmakten har för att omhänderta erfarenheter används. De faktorer som bör finnas med för att omhänderta värnpliktigas erfarenheter finns med i metoden samt att Försvarsmakten som en hierarkisk organisation minskar effekten av den personalomsättning ett värnpliktssystem innebär. I vilken omfattning Försvarsmaktens metod de facto används under de värnpliktigas utbildning har däremot inte undersökts och lämnas som förslag till vidare forskning. / This thesis has researched how a transition to a conscript system will impact on the organisationallearning. The purpose was to examine if the conscript soldiers experience, primarily on theexperience regarding technical systems, is taken care of by the organisation. The theory that wasused was The Five Learning Cycles of the Organizational Learning developed by Sanchez. Themethod was to use previous research on organisational learning and use it to develop an idealprocess for organisational learning for conscript soldiers. This ideal process was later used toanalyse the process in the Swedish Armed Forces. The result of this thesis is that a transition to aconscript system will have a small impact if the existing method in the Swedish Armed Forces isused. The factors that should be in the process is in large found, and the fact that it is a hierarchicorganisation will reduce the effect of personnel turnover with a conscript system. In what extentthe Swedish Armed Forces is using its method in the training of the conscripts hasn´t beenresearched and is a suggestion to future research.

The art of tactical adjustment or military adaption are key abilities for an army to be effective on the battlefield. The knowledge of how a unit adapts during different scenarios is good to know for other units, therefore should reports of how they adapted and what they learned be passed on through the organisation. The problem whitin the Swedish armed forces is the lack of reports of lessons learned from day to day activities to the land combat centre. The main purpose of this studie is to examine organizational learning whitin military organisations.  This studie conducts interviews with six platoon comanders from different branches of the army. The comanders were asked how they conduct training with tactical adaption and lessons learned, what they do with the information they recovered from training.  The results from the studie proves that tactical adjustment and lessons learned is something that happens in the Swedish armed forces at an almost day to day basis and is a desirable ability for every unit to master. Although the comanders that were interviewed are lower down in the hierarchy of the Swedish armed forces and may not have the full picture of what happens to their reports after they been sent, they know that the reports and lessons learned were sent higher up in the hierarchy.  The main conclusion of this studie is that something needs to be done about the lessons learned system. Units training with tactical adaption provides reports with lessons learned, however the landwarfarecenter aren’t receiving any reports