A Comparison of Retirement Intent between Prior and Non-Prior Enlisted Officers.
Abstract
Personnel turnover and its many varied organizational costs are frequently explored and documented in private sector professional literature. Officer retirement is a type of personnel turnover that causes many adverse USAF conditions such as loss of experience which is difficult or costly to replace. Few published reports document studies of retirement causes, and fewer address comparisons between prior and non-prior enlisted officers. A survey instrument was used to collect data for analysis of retirement intent, demographic, and biographical differences among prior and non-prior enlisted officers soon or currently eligible for officer retirement. The sampled officers worked in logistics career fields. Data on responses to retirement intent, demographic, and biographic questions reflected that the two groups were similar, which might suggest similar behavior. Prior or non-prior enlisted background would not have been an effective predictor of retirement intent. Thesis data suggested that the absence of job satisfaction might be an effective predictor of retirement intent for both groups of officers. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA147296
Entities
People
- H. B. Williams
- P. C. De Bruin
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology