Policy Capturing of Management Personnel through Project-Selection Decision Making in an Air Force Research and Development Laboratory.

Abstract

Policy capturing was used in this research to model the project-selection decision making behavior of individual managers in an Air Force R&D Laboratory environment. The managers were partitioned by management level, division, and type of laboratory project. Models were formulated for these groups to determine if consensus existed among them. The policy capturing instrument was constructed based on six factors that were identified by interviews with the laboratory managers. These factors were Cost-Benefit Ratio, Technical Merit, Resource Availability, Likelihood of Success, Time Period, and Air Force Need. The instrument required the managers to make 32 decisions concerning his/her support or non-support of 32 hypothetical R&D projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA076977

Entities

People

  • Terry L. Brooks

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Judgment
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Project Management
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Self Assembly
  • Theses
  • Three Dimensional
  • Toes

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management