Selection of Components to Comprise a Naval Personnel Status Index (NPSI) and a Strategy for Investigating Their Relative Importance
Abstract
The report summarizes the properties that a Naval Personnel Status Index (NPSI) should have and presents the rationale for using quality indexing and policy capturing methodologies to develop an index possessing the requisite attributes. A two-day workshop was held with 23 Naval officers and instructors at the Monterey Navy Postgraduate School. Participants suggested 29 potential measures that they believed to be indications of the level of overall personnel status aboard a ship. They also judged each potential measure against scales relevant to properties deemed to be desirable for components of an NPSI and reported their perceived correlations among the 29 measures. Factor analysis of the perceived correlations among these 14 measures yielded five factors--I: Fitness and Readiness of Individuals; II: Discipline; III: Crew Members' Attitudes; IV: Activities During Free Time; and, V: Manning Level. The 14 components have now been used to generate a policy capturing task comprised of 100 mock ships showing various configurations on the 14 components. Naval officers will be asked to rate these mock ships according to their overall personnel status, and policy capturing methodology will be used to evaluate the components for possible use in the NPSI.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0776285
Entities
People
- Marvin D. Dunnette
- Walter C. Borman