Surface warfare officer career development: an analysis of historical data
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Authors
Campbell, William Harrison
Subjects
Career development
Career paths
Billet assignments
Surface Warfare Officers
Command selection
Career paths
Billet assignments
Surface Warfare Officers
Command selection
Advisors
Arima, James K.
Milch, Paul R.
Date of Issue
1980-06
Date
June 1980
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
Officer Master File data were used to reconstruct and analyze the career paths of a sample of 1,084 year group 1958-1963 Surface Warfare Officers. Of particular concern were the developmental characteristics, apart from performance, which distinguished the careers of commander-command selectees from those of nonselectees. A wide variety of career development opportunities were found to have been provided to Surface Warfare Officers to enable them to qualify for command selection, and the absence of any absolute path to selection or nonselection was confirmed. There were, however, certain individual billet types, combination of billets and commissioning sources which, if experienced by Surface Warfare Officers, tended to increase or decrease their probability of later command selection. In this regard, the singular importance of the lieutenant commander executive officer tour to command selection was documented.
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Department of Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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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.