Importance of Job Factors to Navy Personnel

Abstract

The unsuccessful history of attempts to measure the relative importance of job factors is reviewed. The uses to which importance data could be put are reviewed and several hypotheses are advanced concerning the concept of importance of job factors. Seven methodological requirements for a measure of importance are advanced as improvements over past approaches. The development of an indirect two-stage method for measuring importance is described. It meets all seven of the stated requirements. The method was applied on four U. S. Navy destroyers. The resulting estimates of the relative importance of work, pay, supervision, and co-workers showed that situational determinants operated to vary mean importance from ship to ship. Respondents were grouped by means of cluster analyses into relatively homogeneous clusters with common patterns of job factor importance. Different personnel decisions may be appropriate for respondents from different clusters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0747658

Entities

People

  • Stanley M. Nealey

Organizations

  • Colorado State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Human Behavior
  • Hypotheses
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Security
  • Supervision
  • Supervisors
  • Test And Evaluation

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