Morale behavioral operations for the recruits from agent-based modeling

Morale dominates soldiers´ behaviors and combat effectiveness. Recruits´ group morale always gets stuck in a low level due to the gap between the real army and their imaginary one. It´s important to find a solution to increase the morale effectively in the first few days and keep it steady in the following days. In this paper, first four core behavioral attributes that affect the morale, in the view of organizational behavior, are refined, then the recruit agent model based on agent-based modeling (ABM) is built, next rules for four modules, which are oral praise module, motion module, interaction module and morale recession module, are set on the recruits, and finally four simulation experiments are conducted. With the collaboration of the four modules, recruits´ group morale grows significantly in the first ninety days and keeps steady in the later days. Some abnormal agents´ individual morale changes are also studied.