A descriptive analysis of first term attrition from shore activities
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Authors
Dodge, Kathleen Wolf
Subjects
Navy enlisted personnel
Navy enlisted attrition
Attrition
Enlisted personnel
Shore duty attrition
Survival Tracking File
General detail enlisted personnel
Separation codes
Separation activities
Navy enlisted attrition
Attrition
Enlisted personnel
Shore duty attrition
Survival Tracking File
General detail enlisted personnel
Separation codes
Separation activities
Advisors
Elster, Richard S.
Date of Issue
1983-03
Date
March 1983
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis investigates the type of duty assigned--sea or shore--at the point of separation for those non-prior-service (NPS) males who left the Navy before expiration of their initial enlistment contract, using a fiscal year's cohort of accessions drawn from the Navy Enlisted Tracking File (STF). Demographic and organizational attributes of cohort members are described, as well as characterizations of service and reasons for loss of those who left prematurely. Previous research using situational variables suggested the possibility that initial assignment to shore duty after training might be a higher attrition risk than assignment to sea duty for NPS males. The data for this cohort indicate that the predominance of shore processing activities as separating commands obscure the question of whether a premature loss should be attributed to a sea or shore command, and that assumptions about initial assignment to shore duty based on type-duty variable are suspect because of the probability that processing, holding and corrections commands are included under the designation of shore commands.
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Thesis
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Department
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.