The Results of an Experimental Restructuring of EO Staffing Patterns in a Infantry Division
Abstract
An experiment was implemented in the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Air Field, Georgia, at the request of Headquarters FORSCOM. The experiment involved a restructing of the equal opportunity programs staffing plan in which all primary duty EO staff were removed from brigade level, consolidated at division level and organized into three sections. Affirmative Actions Plan, Operations, and Training. Within five days of the beginning of the experiment every company, battalion, and brigade commander at Hunter/Stewart was asked to complete a questionnaire concerning the utilization of the EO staff. A second questionnaire containing many of the same questions was administered to the same group after the experiment had been in progress nine months. In addition, interviews were conducted with all brigade- and battalion-level commanders and with a sample of company commanders and EO staff personnel to ascertain their views of the staff consolidation experiment. Commanders and EO personnel passively accepted or encouraged the division level consolidation of the EO staff; the most outspoken critics of the operation were brigade-level commanders.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA147316
Entities
People
- Dale K. Brown