Download or read book The Effects of Perstempo on Officer Retention in the U S Military written by Ronald D. Fricker and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are increased deployments in the U.S. military associated with decreased retention? This report looks at retention of servicemembers in the decade following the Gulf War. The study casts doubt on hypotheses that say more deployment or hostile deployment causes lower retention. In fact, the study looks at the actual behavior of officers leaving active duty in relation to individual measures of deployment and does not find an association between increasing deployment and increasing separation rates.
Download or read book The Effects of Perstempo on Officer Retention in the US Military written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Gulf War, the operational tempo of the military services has increased dramatically. By some accounts, deployments have increased anywhere from 60 percent (GAO, 1999) to 300 percent (Peters, 1997) between 1986 and 2000 for a force that has 700,000 fewer members and an officer corps that is 31-percent smaller. With recent retention shortfalls, it is often alleged that increased deployments are causing personnel losses. The most commonly cited evidence of this comes from surveys of servicemembers who are queried about their likes and dislikes of military service. While surveys of intentions, and other voiced dissatisfactions with military service, are important tools for identifying areas that require attention, it is just as important to evaluate actual behavior. The relevant question is whether such stated dissatisfaction translates into action so that increased deployments actually result in decreased retention.
Download or read book PERSTEMPO written by Cathie E. Alderks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the recent decreases in the U.S. Army of both personnel and resources and with the concurrent increase in missions performed, there has been concern that the amount of time soldiers are away from home station, or Personnel Tempo (PERSTEMPO), may have a negative impact on the attitudes of Active Component soldiers which in turn affect retention, readiness, and morale. This report investigates the relationship between the amount of time soldiers are away from their duty stations and their attitudes toward the Army. Available data from the spring missions of the Sample Survey of Military Personnel from 1994 through 1997 were used. Data were analyzed with respect to time away from duty station. The more time soldiers spend away from their duty stations, the less likely they are to be satisfied with the amount of time a soldier Is separated from family. For those who are leaving or are thinking of leaving the Army, the first most important reason for officers and the third most important reason for enlisted personnel for leaving is the amount of time separated from family. For officers and enlisted personnel as a whole, the amount of time away from the duty station has no statistically significant relationship with Army career intentions, readiness, morale, stress levels, spouse support, family adjustment and job satisfaction. This report provides a baseline from which leaders may gauge future attitudes and intentions in relation to the amount of time a soldier spends away from the duty station for deployments, training, etc."--DTIC.
Download or read book Risk and Resilience in U S Military Families written by Shelley MacDermid-Wadsworth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel from the U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in stressful circumstances. This is not a new situation for military families, but it has taken a toll of magnified proportions in recent times. In addition, medical advances have prolonged the life of those who might have died of injuries. As a result, more families are caring for those who have experienced amputation, traumatic brain injury, and profound psychological wounds. The Department of Defence has launched unprecedented efforts to support service members and families before, during, and after deployment in all locations of the country as well as in remote locations. Stress in U.S. Military Families brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts from the military to the medical to examine the issues of this critical problem. Its goal is to review the factors that contribute to stress in military families and to point toward strategies and policies that can help. Covering the major topics of parenting, marital functioning, and the stress of medical care, and including a special chapter on single service members, it serves as a comprehensive guide for those who will intervene in these problems and for those undertaking their research.
Download or read book Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Deployments Affect Service Members written by James Hosek and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To offer insights into the challenges faced by active-duty service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and their families in coping with these challenges, and the adequacy of defense manpower policy in assisting members and families, this monograph draws on the perspectives of economics, sociology, and psychology; provides a formal model of deployment and retention; reviews published work; reports on the results of focus groups conducted in each of the services; and presents findings from an analysis of survey data.
Download or read book Personnel Tempo written by Paul J. Sticha and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, military involvement in operations and training exercises has increased, while resources have declined. This situation can stress Service members, increasing personnel tempo, or PERSTEMPO, usually defined as "the number of days that Service members are away from their home station to perform their duties." This report clarifies definitions and measures of PERSTEMPO, summarizes research linking PERSTEMPO to retention, readiness, and quality of life, and presents the results of three analyses of existing Army data to identify effects of PERSTEMPO. Definitions of personnel tempo vary across Services, and are determined from self-reports and administrative records. Effects of PERSTEMPO have been inconsistent, and depend on individual and deployment characteristics. Results of data analyses indicate a modest relationship between PERSTEMPO and retention. At low levels, PERSTEMPO tends to increase retention; this positive relationship decreases at higher levels and may become negative. The analyses show inconsistent relationship between PERSTEMPO and self-assessed readiness. High levels of PERSTEMPO were associated with measures of family strain; relationships with financial factors and general satisfaction were negative, but quite weak. The analyses identified other variables regarding managing deployments that had substantial relationships with several measures of retention readiness and quality of life.
Download or read book Handbook of Defense Economics written by Keith Hartley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines the state of defence economics, covering theoretical analysis, econometric techniques and policy issues. The chapters fall into two categories - surveys and conceptual studies.
Download or read book A Statistical Analysis of Officer Retention in the U S Military written by Turgay Demirel and published by . This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the effect of officer commissioning sources on the retention of officers at two different career points: 1) At the end of the initial service obligation (MSR), and (2) at ten-years of service. The goal of this study is to help policy makers in setting and implementing personnel policies by providing information on the effectiveness of each commissioning program. The Defense Manpower Data Center in Monterey, California, provided the data file used in the analysis of officer retention. The data file contained longitudinal information on the population of officers who entered the military between 1985 and 1995. Logit regression models were used to analyze officer retention at MSR and at the ten-year point. Results indicate that retention behavior varies across commissioning programs. Significant differences in retention are observed among graduates of the Service Academies, ROTC scholarship and ROTC Non-scholarship Programs, Officer Candidate/Training Schools, and Direct Appointment Programs. The differences are observed for all services combined and for each individual service. In most of the models, commissioning source variables are significant; however, the magnitude differences in retention between the five major commissioning sources often are not large. Moreover, the direction of the retention effect often varies across the services for each commissioning program. Further research on officer commissioning programs is recommended to include individual preferences and job satisfaction in the analysis of officer retention.
Download or read book Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to transforming the nation's armed forces to meet the military challenges of the future. One approach to achieving this transformation is by leveraging advances in science and technology. New technologies and innovations are integral to today's military actions, and associated changes have rippled through all aspects of operations, highlighting the need for changes in policies related to military personnel. At the request of the Force Chief of Naval Operations, the NRC reviewed the military manpower and personnel policies and studies currently underway in the DOD and developed an implementation strategy for the Department of the Navy's future military manpower and personnel needs. This book presents an introduction to current personnel policies of and concerns facing the Naval forces; an assessment of demographic, technological, and other forces affecting future personnel needs and availability; a summary and assessment of previous studies; an examination of the role of research tools in implementing personnel policy change; and an analysis of obstacles to and strategies for transforming the Naval forces.
Download or read book The Ingenuity Gap written by and published by CSIS. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Military After 9 11 written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before 9/11. With its focus on maximizing civilian casualties, terrorism has been uniquely able to arouse the popular emotion and make us rethink the use of military force.
Download or read book A Model of U S Army Officer Retention Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the findings of a pilot study of the determinants of officer retention behavior. Stay-leave decisions for a sample of Air Defense Artillery officers were modeled in an ACOL-2 (panel probit) framework. The estimation showed that the officers were sensitive to changes in civilian and military pay, as well as to the condition of the civilian labor market. Retention behavior also varies by source of commission, gender, race, and marital status. Finally, the panel probit specification confirmed that unobserved heterogeneity had a significant impact. As officer cohorts age, the distribution of unobserved tastes for the military becomes truncated and retention rates rise. The study also included tests of alternative specifications for the pay variable and the size of the decision window, as well as an evaluation of the applicability of model results for a policy analysis model. The model will allow Army decision makers to track the effects of changes in policy, compensation, and economic conditions on the probability that officers will stay through key career decision points. Follow-on work will include estimating the model for all officers and increasing the number of decisions modeled.
Download or read book Towards a U S Army Officer Corps Strategy for Success written by Casey Wardynski and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 3 decades, dramatic labor market changes and well-intentioned but uninformed policies have created significant officer talent flight. Poor retention engenders substantial risk for the Army as it directly affects accessions, development, and employment of talent. The Army cannot make thoughtful policy decisions if its officer talent pipeline continues to leak at current rates. Since the Army cannot insulate itself from labor market forces as it tries to retain talent, the retention component of its officer strategy must rest upon sound market principles. It must be continuously resourced, executed, measured, and adjusted across time and budget cycles. Absent these steps, systemic policy, and decisionmaking failures will continue to confound Army efforts to create a talent-focused officer corps strategy.
Download or read book Officer Attrition written by Kevin M. Badger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Have Deployments During the War on Terrorism Affected Reenlistment written by James R. Hosek and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been the United States' longest military engagements since the Vietnam War and the most severe test of the all-volunteer force, with the possible exception of the Gulf War in 1991. More than 1.5 million service members were deployed between 2002 and 2007, many of them more than once, and the fast pace of deployment has been felt throughout the military. Soldiers and marines have faced a steady cycle of predeployment training and exercises, deployment itself, and postdeployment reassignment and unit regeneration. Service members not on deployment are nonetheless busy planning and supporting military operations, caring for injured service members, and attending to recruiting, training, and other responsibilities at home and abroad. Many service members are married, and deployments have disrupted their family routines and created stress from separation and reintegration. At the same time, the long hours, tension, uncertainty, and violence of deployments have stressed the service members sent to fight. Remarkably, despite the pressures from deployments on service members and their families, reenlistment rates have been stable since 2002. The purpose of this monograph is to enhance understanding of whether deployments affected service members' willingness to stay in the military, as the stress caused by deployments would suggest, and how it was that reenlistment held steady.
Download or read book Attitudes Aren t Free written by James E. Parco and published by Enso Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the US Armed Services ISBN: 9780982018569 LCCN: LCCN2010282390 Published June 2010 by Air University Press.
