Enlistment motivators for high quality recruits in the Army Reserve
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Authors
Halverson, David D.
Subjects
Motivation
Recruiting
Army reserve
enlistment quality
factor analysis
Recruiting
Army reserve
enlistment quality
factor analysis
Advisors
Johnson, Laura
Thomas, George
Date of Issue
1989-06
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis investigates the relationship between the quality of recruits and the factors that influence their enlistment decision. Demographic variables, such as gender, educational level, marital status, and ethnic group, and quality are related to the propensity to enlist in the Army Reserves. The data were obtained from the 1987 New Recruit Survey of the Army Reserve recruits. The analysis attempts to significant differences, if any, there are in the enlistment decision of soldiers who score in the upper 50th percentile of the Armed Forces Qualification test (AFQT), and those that are in the lower half of the AFQT test results...
Type
Thesis
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Department
Operations Research
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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Format
85 p.
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.