The sandcrab syndrome - fact of fiction? : a study of the attitudes of United States Naval Officers toward civil service managerial and technical personnel.
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Authors
Long, Gideon Lester III
Subjects
Navy officer attitudes
civilian personnel management
officer civilian relationships
navy civilian
military civilian relationships
navy management relations
supervisory relations
military civilian organizations
civilian personnel management
officer civilian relationships
navy civilian
military civilian relationships
navy management relations
supervisory relations
military civilian organizations
Advisors
Creighton, John W.
Date of Issue
1977-09
Date
September 1977
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The objective of this research was to develop and utilize a method
for determining and examining the attitudes of U. S. Naval officers
toward civil service managerial and technical personnel. The six subject
areas covered in the research were competence and motivation,
personal relationships, professional relationships, pay, personnel
rotation, and civilian personnel regulations. The major hypothesis
was that the general attitude of the average Naval officer toward his
civilian counterpart is negative. A questionnaire containing 27 questions
was developed and distributed to 371 Naval officers who were
students at the Naval Postgraduate School. Responses were received from
197 officers which formed the total response population. From that
population, the responses of those officers who had directly supervised,
been supervised by, or worked closely with civilians were extracted,
analyzed separately, and compared with the responses of the total population.
Narrative comments submitted by the respondents were also analyzed.
The research led to the conclusion that the major hypothesis
was generally erroneous. A second major conclusion was that close
contact with civilians improves officer attitudes toward them.
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Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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