Perceived Effectiveness of Current Military Retirement Alternatives.

Abstract

This thesis develops and evaluates a methodology designed to quantify perceptions of alternative military retirement plans and components of retirement systems. The technique consists of factoring retirement proposals into common characteristics, surveying a sample of the military population, asking them to rank and weight characteristic importance and score how each plan fulfills each characteristic, and computing a relative weighted preference for each plan. Based on successful demonstration of this methodology using a sample of military officer students at the Naval Postgraduate School, it is recommended that this method be expanded to a sample of the entire military population. In view of the recent criticism alleging inefficiency and expensiveness of the existing system, the results of such an effort could be useful to the effectiveness portion of a systematic analysis aimed at choosing among alternative retirement systems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA072687

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  • William Cotesworth Keller

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • California
  • Congress
  • Data Analysis
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  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Social Security
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
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