Military, Biographical, and Demographic Correlates of Army Career Intentions
Abstract
This report explores organizational and personal correlates of intentions to reenlist or remain on active duty in the Army for both offices and enlisted service members. Prediction of career intention proved to be efficient and parsimonious for enlisted personnel. Only three characteristics (time in service, age, and job satisfaction) comulatively accounted for 48% of the variance in the criterion. Among officers, nine predictors explained only 41% of the variance. Other variables associated with enlisted career intention were certain types of military occupational specialty and units of assignment, education, race, and appraisal of other members of the unit. Officer correlates of career intention were age, time in service, certain types of occupational specialties, and units of assignment, deviance, and assessment of unit readiness. Implications of these correlates are presented from perspectives of possible Department of the Army policy initiatives and considerations in unit personnel management style.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA132580
Entities
People
- John P. Allen
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences