Enlisted Career Force Management Systems: An Evaluation of Department of Defense Comments on a Critical Report
Abstract
Improvements in enlisted career force management offer opportunities to greatly reduce personnel costs without affecting program substance. We pointed out many management improvements that have been made in the services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to correct enlisted career force imbalances and prevent them from recurring. However, action needs to be taken to bring the career force into balance with enlisted force objectives earlier than the 7 to 10 year time frame planned by the Department of Defense, to greatly reduce personnel costs. Also, the benefits of personnel objectives, such as grades, experience profiles, and promotion opportunity, which shape the enlisted force need to be justified based on tradeoffs identified through cost benefit studies rather than on assumptions concerning their effect. We recommended developing ways to measure the effectiveness of enlisted career force objectives on a cost benefit basis and discussed the use of such measurements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 13, 1978
- Accession Number
- AD1166748
Entities
People
- Elmer B. Staats
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office