Military Enlistment, Reenlistment and Withdrawal Research: A Critical Review of the Literature

Abstract

A critical review of the military literature indicates that incentives, organization practices, organization climate, job content, satisfaction, intention, expectations, demographic, psychological, aptitude, and performance variables, in isolation, explain a small percent of the variance in the dependent variable. In addition, the literature review notes that meaningful predictors (such as the size of the military accession age population, current and/or projected reemployment among this population, the rates of military wages to civilian wages, and DOD separation policies) have been omitted in much of the past research. The basic conclusion of the study is the need for the inclusion of additional predictors in multivariate studies which have strong research designs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA048955

Entities

People

  • Herbert H. Hand
  • Rodger W. Griffeth
  • William H. Mobley

Organizations

  • University of South Carolina

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Business Administration
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Naval Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Surveys

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.