A Future Officer Career Management System: An Objectives-Based Design - Softcover

Thie, Harry J.; Harrell, Margaret C.; Brown, Roger A.; Graff, Clifford M.; Berends, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833024914 ISBN 13: 9780833024916

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2001

Synopsis

This report is a follow-on to MR-470-OSD, Future Career Management Systems for U.S. Military Officers, 1994. The earlier study determined a range of likely future officer requirements and a number of alternative career management systems. It did not attempt to define a best system because it lacked the objectives component―what the system was to accomplish. The current report does design a best officer career system, defined as one that most fully satisfies 11 ranked objectives determined by a process that included interviews with a group of senior military and civilian officials. The authors describe the process used to determine the objectives of the career management system and the weights accorded those objectives by policymakers. They then illustrate how the methodology is used and present the career management system that results for line officers. A sensitivity analysis and six appendices are included.

About this title

From the Publisher

This report represents a follow-on effort to an earlier NationalDefense Research Institute study, Future Career ManagementSystems for U.S. Military Officers, MR-470-OSD, 1994, that serves as asource for alternative career management practices. The current re-portapplies an objectives-based methodology using preferences ofDepartment of Defense policymakers in the development of a careermanagement system for officers. The work was completed andprovided to the sponsor in 1997.This study was sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense forPersonnel and Readiness, and it was carried out in the Forces andResources Policy Center of the National Defense Research Institute, afederally funded research and development center sponsored by theOffice of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the unifiedcommands, and the defense agencies. The study should interestthose involved with military personnel management.

About the Author

MARK BERENDS (Ph.D., Sociology, 1992, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a Senior Social Scientist at RAND.

Margaret C. Harrell (Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Virginia) is a social scientist at RAND. Her research at RAND focuses upon military manpower issues and social issues in the military.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0833024914
• ISBN 13: 9780833024916
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136