Subspecialty utilization in the Navy: a longitudinal analysis of unrestricted line officers who graduate from the Naval Postgraduate School
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Authors
Simboli, David M.
Subjects
Subspecialty utilization
Graduate education
Unrestricted Line Officers
Naval Postgraduate School
Graduate education
Unrestricted Line Officers
Naval Postgraduate School
Advisors
Eitelberg, Mark J.
Mitchell, Carol A.
Date of Issue
1993
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis focuses on a cohort of unrestricted line (URL)
officers who graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS) in 1985. The thesis begins with a description of the
officers and their subspecialty codes. Patterns of
subspecialty utilization are then tracked for six-to-seven
years and analyzed by rank, designator, and gender.
Results show that the subspecialty utilization rate (as of
1991) for the total cohort is 82.4 percent; and the rate for
the Department of Administrative Sciences is 8 5.5 percent.
Surface warfare officers (SWO) accounted for 41.5 percent of
the 1985 cohort; and 75.4 percent met the Department of
Defense (DoD) utilization guidelines. The cohort consisted
mostly of men (85.9 percent), 80.7 percent of whom were utilized in compliance with DoD guidelines.
Conclusions are that women tend to increase utilization
rates, while SWOs and Pilots tend to suppress them. Full
compliance with DoD guidelines may not be optimal or
desirable. The future role of women in the military may
decrease utilization rates. Recommendations are offered to
improve methods of tracking officers and possibly raise
current rates of subspecialty utilization.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Management
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
NA
Format
89 p.
Citation
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