Assessing the Utility of MOS (Military Occupational Specialties) Performance Levels in Army Enlisted Occupations

Abstract

Project A is the Army's long-term program to develop a complete personnel system for selecting and classifying all entry-level enlisted personnel. The utility measurement component deals with determining the relative utility to the Army of different levels of performance in entry-level Military Occupational Specialties (MOS). Because little research has been performed on such questions, exploratory work was done in a series of workshops with Army officers on how performance levels should be defined, what unit of measurement is appropriate for describing the relative value of differential job assignments across various MOS/performance level combinations, and how such values can best be estimated. Two scaling methods (pile placement and direct estimation) were selected and used to estimate utility values for 273 entry level- MOS. The research established that a coherent, reliable, set of relative utility values can be derived at all performance levels for a wide variety of MOS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA211608

Entities

People

  • Ani S. Difazio
  • John P. Campbell
  • Leonard A. White
  • Robert Sadacca
  • Shelia R. Schultz

Organizations

  • Human Resources Research Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Air Force
  • Army Personnel
  • Artillery
  • Classification
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • Measurement
  • Military Occupational Specialties
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychology
  • Recruiting
  • Social Sciences

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