Measurement of Air Force Fire Department Productivity: An Evaluation of Efficiency/Effectiveness.

Abstract

This research was sponsored to develop a method of evaluating the productivity of Air Force Fire Departments. Using the tasks developed by the Fire Department Workshop, input and output measures were defined and used in a new model of efficiency called Constrained Facet Analysis (CFA). The advantage of this methodology over others considered was that it can simultaneously evaluate multiple inputs and multiple outputs using empirical data with no a priori weighting. The results of the analysis provided an efficiency rating for each fire department and information about marginal rates of substitution and marginal rates of productivity for inefficient units based on their efficiency frontiers. Though the current CFA model has some dimensioning limitations that affected the depth of analysis available, the resulting evaluations gave a better indication of the real efficiency of individual fire departments than methods currently used and also gave better comparative information to be used in budgeting and resource allocation decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146874

Entities

People

  • T. A. Byers

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Fire Extinguishers
  • Fire Fighting
  • Fire Protection
  • Fire Suppression
  • Management Personnel
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.