UNDERSTANDING FACTORS RELATED TO ATTRITION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES USING NON-PARAMETRIC SURVIVAL METHODS
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Morgan, Brittany
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attrition
survival analysis
survival analysis
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Whitaker, Lyn R.
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2019-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Government success depends on employees with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) qualifications to support critical roles within the Department of Defense (DoD), so it is important to understand attrition factors related to the DoD STEM workforce and how these factors might differ from DoD employees in non-STEM occupations. Civilian personnel data from Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), linked by anonymous employee identification numbers, was analyzed to study attrition of DoD STEM civilians. To limit the scope of the study, we based the analysis only on a cross-section of civilians employed by Department of the Army (DA) in the first quarter of 2009. Our findings suggest that Virginia STEM employees, especially in the first few years after appointment, have higher attrition rates than the Texas STEM employees. Implications of these results could suggest policy changes such as increases in locality pay for DoD STEM positions in Virginia are needed to incentivize the retention of STEM employees in a competitive market.
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Operations Research (OR)
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