Naval Officer Retention as a Function of Commission Source and First and Second Duty Assignments: An Evaluation of Three Estimation Models
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Authors
Weitzman, R.A.
Robertson, David W.
Subjects
CAREERS
RETENTION(GENERAL)
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ALGORITHMS
OPTIMIZATION
JOBS
NAVAL PERSONNEL
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
ACCURACY
ESTIMATES
COSTS
PATTERNS
ACTIVE DUTY
OFFICER PERSONNEL
RETENTION(GENERAL)
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ALGORITHMS
OPTIMIZATION
JOBS
NAVAL PERSONNEL
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
ACCURACY
ESTIMATES
COSTS
PATTERNS
ACTIVE DUTY
OFFICER PERSONNEL
Advisors
Date of Issue
1979-09
Date
1979-09
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
The overall objectives of the subproject are to develop career paths that enable junior officers to make long-term career plans and to assist the Navy in developing assignment strategies that increase career retention of quality Naval officers. The study was undertaken to identify patterns in the duty assignment system that are associated with retention. If patterns are identified that are controllable through the assignment system alternative strategies that increase retention may be developed. Configural (or pattern) analysis models were evaluated for accuracy and stability in providing estimates of retention proportions for a source-to-assignment matrix with several hundred possible assignment patterns. The major finding was that one of the SPA models provided more stable data than did the calculations based on the actual outcomes. This finding suggests that stable estimates of personnel retention proportions are possible for use with a source-to-assignment matrix in algorithms for optimizing the assignment of personne
Type
Technical Report
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Department
Organization
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS54-79-006
Sponsors
Navy Personnel Research and Development Center
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Citation
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.