Download or read book Army Reserve Components Retention the Motivational Factor written by James R. Compton and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Retention in the Reserves The Motivation Factor written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on information reported through a number of surveys, there is reason to believe that the US Army Reserve (USAR) and the US Army National Guard (ARNG) are conducting retention programs with obsolete motivational tools. In 1978, the US Army Recruiting Command assumed the recruiting mission for the USAR, and perhaps it will do the same for the National Guard in the not-too-distant future; consequently, Reserve component unit commanders can now turn more of their attention to retaining quality individuals. Additional time, however, will not solve problems that have been years in the making. Unit commanders must reorient their thinking, for too many reservists, particularly first-termers, have not been buying what units are selling as retention benefits. This is a difficult situation to face, because Army managers, like civilian counterparts, do not like to admit that their programs are not working as well as they would like. Commanders want to believe that all is well if personnel strength is at 100 percent, that their units are healthy or well on the road to recovery from minor illness. It is possible, though doubtful, that the Recruiting Command will be able to pump enough recruits into the system each year for the Reserve to continue to appear reasonably healthy while the basic illness grows internally; however, the patient will eventually require major surgery and perhaps a very long rehabilitation.

Download or read book Reserve Components written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Retention Within the Army Reserve written by Steven Gamble and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who Stays and Who Goes Army Enlisted Reserve and National Guard Retention written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, USAR and ARNG personnel serving with their active components are a common sight and are transparent in many areas of operation. Army reserve components have actively participated in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and for homeland security. Reserve and National Guard units provide specialist and augmentation support for active operations without reserve component support. National leadership increasingly has called upon these reserve components to replace operational active Army units as commitments grow in breadth and scope. Force commitments around the globe will ensure future mobilizations of U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) and Army National Guard (ARNG) personnel in areas away from home and under conditions not foreseen just a few years ago.

Download or read book Reserve Components written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined enlisted personnel retention in the Selected Reserve, focusing on the causes and extent of personnel turnover and attrition. GAO found that: (1) personnel losses in the Selected Reserve for fiscal year (FY) 1988 totalled 220,909, with attrition rates ranging from 11 percent of Air National Guard reservists to 30 percent of Army reservists; (2) transfers to individual ready reserve units made up the largest category of losses in the Selected Reserve; (3) while nonprior service personnel accounted for 42 percent of enlistments in FY 1988, they constituted 61 percent of overall losses in the Selected Service; (4) the loss of nonprior service reservists represented a direct cost to reserve components for recruitment and training; (5) although the Department of Defense (DOD) distinguished between losses to the total force and realignments within the force, all losses affected the Selected Reserve; (6) the lack of accurate information hampered DOD attrition management; (7) job conflicts, dissatisfaction with training and enlistment terms, and delayed receipt of reserve pay contributed to attrition; (8) mismatches between reservists' primary speciality and their duty specialty was strongly related to attrition; (9) DOD lacked a uniform policy for dealing with reservists who failed to honor their obligation to participate in training; and (10) DOD and various reserve components designed several initiatives to reduce attrition and improve reserve retention, but other opportunities existed to increase personnel retention.

Download or read book Recommendations for People Research and Development Actions to Improve Army Reserve Component Readiness written by James A. Bynum and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data and documentation published by the US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Headquarters were reviewed, FORSCOM staff personnel were interviewed, and other Department of Defense documents were reviewed and personnel interviewed. MOS qualification and personnel were cited as the most critical Manpower, Personnel, and Training issues limiting Reserve Component (RC) readiness in FY83. Manpower strength may be more a function of policy and budget constraint, but there are indications that recruiting and retention are becoming problems. Training was not cited as a critical factor impeding readiness in the RC; however, the potential profit from training and human factors research and development is significant. A planned, systematic, program of research and development in recruiting, retention, motivation and morale would benefit the RC. The RC would benefit from a plan that would apply currently available training and human factors technology to the RC's unique troop and individual ready reserve issues, while simultaneously providing for testing and applying high technology as it becomes available. Keywords: Army Reserve, Army National Guard, Reserve Readiness, Training Research.

Download or read book Who Stays and Who Goes written by Clayton K. S. Chun and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, USAR and ARNG personnel serving with their active components are a common sight and are transparent in many areas of operation. Army reserve components have actively participated in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and for homeland security. Reserve and National Guard units provide specialist and augmentation support for active forces. In some cases, active forces could not sustain field operations without reserve component support. National leadership increasingly has called upon these reserve components to replace operational active Army units as commitments grow in breadth and scope. Force commitments around the globe will ensure future mobilizations of U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) and Army National Guard (ARNG) personnel in areas away from home and under conditions not foreseen just a few years ago. Frequent and large mobilizations of units and individuals to supplement and support active forces come at a cost, not only financially, but in terms of readiness and perhaps retention. Like their active duty counterparts, USAR and ARNG forces rely strictly on volunteers to fill their ranks. If conditions become intolerable for potential recruits and existing members, these organizations may find personnel refusing to consider participation in the reserves. Perhaps a first step in determining whether the Army faces such a problem is to determine if it faces retention concerns among its forces. This monograph examines trends in USAR and ARNG enlisted members' retention. Its primary objective is to create a baseline to compare future USAR and ARNG retention and concentrates on the period from 1995 to 2002. The author compares demographic factors, such as race and martial status, to examine who stays and who leaves their respective components. These trends should provide the basis for further study and policy recommendations. The USAR and ARNG face many of the same problems as the active Army, but their situation is more complex. They face problems with their members balancing civilian and military careers, family concerns, and other challenges that can force them to leave service before the completion of a full reserve career. Three groups are examined: enlisted members with 4-7 years, 8- 10 years, and 19 years of service. These groups represent relatively junior, middle grade, and senior military members. If the junior members start to leave, the reserve component needs to work harder to recruit more soldiers. Middle grade enlisted members serve as the backbone of the reserve force and affect future senior enlisted leadership capability. If soldiers start to retire, lack of senior leadership can affect unit readiness and capabilities by forcing junior and middle grade enlisted members to take over positions and work assignments earlier than they might otherwise. This could also affect their retention. Several notable differences have occurred between the groups. Overall, the Army Reserve had a higher retention rate than the National Guard. Within all of the three enlisted groups, USAR groups had a higher retention rate than comparable ARNG ones. Retention actually increased in almost all groups over the period, despite lowered unemployment rates. During some periods of decreased unemployment, some retention rates among junior enlisted members increased, while in other cases high unemployment corresponded with lower retention. Other demographic trends include married members having higher retention rates than single members whether the person was in the USAR or ARNG. However, if one examines individuals who indicate how many dependents that member claims, the observation changes. Single members with dependents normally have greater retention rates than married members with the same number of dependents, up to a point. These observations could have significant policy implications to improve retention among particular groups, like providing health insurance or childcare that could affect retention.

Download or read book Reenlistment in the U S Army Reserve written by Faris R. Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines motivational and other factors that influence reenlistment intentions of U.S. Army Reservists in troop program units. A mail survey was conducted in 1978 with a resulting representative sample of 892 reservists who were in their first enlistment, reenlistment or extension in the Army Reserve and who were within six months of their end of term of service (ETS). Questionnaire data were merged with demographic, personal background, and military career data for respondents and with objective data concerning characteristics of their reserve units. Reenlistment intentions were related to several demographic, background, and military career characteristics of reservists and to reservists' subjective perceptions of their units, but not to certain objective characteristics of their units. Five general characteristics of the reserve experience were identified as independent dimensions underlying more specific characteristics highly related to reenlistment intent: job satisfaction; prestige of reserve membership; social utility of reserve membership; interference-facilitation effect of reserve membership on other aspects of reservists lives (e.g., home life and civilian job); and supervisor-subordinate relations in the unit. Popularity of certain unit characteristics, existing and hypothetical benefits of reserve membership, and proposed changes in the Army Reserve were also related to reenlistment intent. (Keywords: Reenlistment; Personnel retention; U.S. Army Reserve; Motivation; Survey research; Questionnaire construction; Decision analysis; Reenlistment intentions.).

Download or read book An Analysis of Retention of First term Enlisted Personnel in the Selected Reserves written by Donald D. Fithian (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis analyzes retention decisions of male, first-term enlisted Selected Army Reservists. The likelihood of retention is analyzed with the conditional logistic regression (logit) model using a dichotomous choice of intentions (stay/leave) for various Reserve sub-populations: non-prior and prior active service groups for National Guard and Army Reserve components. The relative importance of various demographic, military experience and cognitive/perceptual factors to the retention decision is assessed. The results highlight potential policy variables which can be impacted by manpower policy planners to manage Reserve force retention. Keywords: Reenlistment intentions; Selected Reserve Participation; Military turnover; Reserve affiliation; Military manpower planning; Reserve manpower analysis; Theses. (SDW).

Download or read book Gender Differences in the Retention of Enlisted Army Reservists written by Kathryn M. Kocher and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates factors influencing the retention behavior of young enlisted men and women in the U.S. Army Reserve. Data from the 1984 Reserve Components Survey were matched with 1989 military personnel records to gain information on actual turnover/staying behavior of enlisted Reservists. A sample of 4,042 enlisted personnel serving past-time with the Army Selected Reserve was extracted and used in developing turnover models based on threshold behavior theory. Logit regression techniques were used to estimate separate turnover models by gender and prior Active Duty service status. Explanatory variables included demographic, military background, economic incentive, and cognitive/perceptual factors. Factor analysis was used to identify dimensions among attitudinal responses and to construct a set of composite variables. Model results indicate that all prior service/gender cohorts were significantly influenced by retirement benefits. Additional significant influences for these groups include 1: intrinsic job characteristics and family status for nonprior service women; age at entry, paygrade, and income for nonprior service males; intrinsic job characteristics and drill characteristics for prior service women; and age at Reserve entry, paygrade, travel time to drill, and family status for prior service men.

Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Current Status of Military Recruiting and Retention H A S C No 109 44 July 19 2005 109 1 Hearing written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Current Status of Military Recruiting and Retention written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Guard and Reserve in the Total Force written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: