Human Resource Management and Nonjudicial Punishment Rates on Navy Ships
Abstract
Human Resource Management (HRM) is designed to assist commands in improving assessed organizational weaknesses. Diagnosis of a Navy unit's organizational 'state of affairs' is accomplished by administration of the HRM Survey. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between indices of the HRM Survey and rates of nonjudicial punishment (NJP) on Navy ships. It was hypothesized that the more effective the human resource management system within a ship, the lower the NJP rate. Aggregated NJP statistics for two 6-month reporting periods were obtained for 41 ships from 3 type commands. NJP data were then standardized to the number of NJPs per 100 enlisted men per month. HRM Survey data were aggregated for each ship to generate overall mean scores for 16 indices. All correlations between HRM Survey indices and NJP rates were in the predicted direction, i.e., the better the organizational conditions, the lower the NJP rates. Comparisons of extreme groups on the HRM Survey indices revealed that the NJP rates among the high-scoring ships were about half the magnitude of the low-scoring ships. The findings strongly suggest that NJP rates are related to the type of human resource management system present within a ship.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA013226
Entities
People
- Edmund D. Thomas
- Kent S. Crawford
Organizations
- Bureau of Naval Personnel