Executive jobs and executive continuity : An investigation with special reference to Swiss Army instructors.

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Feller, Robert Hans
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Civilian Leadership
Decision making
Demands of Executives
Development of Executives
Education on Executives
Military Leadership
Executive functions
Swiss Army
Technology Transfer
Instructor
Evaluation of Executives
Private Sector
Public sector
Advisors
Creighton, John W.
Date of Issue
1984
Date
December 1981
Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the problems involved in the transfer of senior Swiss Army Instructors to civilian executive jobs in the Swiss Department of Defense and to help analyze means of enhancing this transfer. A survey with questions of an open-ended nature provides a wealth of ideas and opinions. It influenced the focus of the literature search and helped reconcile theory with practice. The purpose and the functions of executives are discussed and four main concerns of executives are examined in more detail: leadership, decision-making, innovation and executive development. The discussions focus on those aspects which may be new to senior military instructors transferred to civilian executive jobs. The issue of the development of executive potential in instructors is discussed in the concluding chapter. Sixty percent of the responses state a need for improved education, with the rationale that there is too great a difference between civilian and military problems and leadership
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/19324
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Department of Administrative Sciences
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