Management and the Oceanography Community: a Consideration in Future Navy Oceanography Planning.

Abstract

The study examines the need for oceanography specialists and subspecialists to possess a degree of managerial expertise and concludes that some type of formalized management education is required. Special management skills are required for optimum performance by oceanography officers in nearly all of the more senior fillets - Captain, Commander, and the majority of the Lieutenant Commander billets. The study presents the reasoning which leads to the above conclusion and then answers four basic questions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0751651

Entities

People

  • Samuel Wilson Sigmund

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communities
  • Education
  • Military Transfers
  • Oceanography
  • Personnel Management
  • Reasoning
  • Specialists

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers