Career Decision-Making and the Military Family: Toward a Comprehensive Model

Abstract

This report summarizes the findings of a panel of scientists convened to develop a conceptual framework for guiding research on the relationship between retention and Army family issues. Literature was reviewed in five domains important in retention decision-making: economic factors, job-related factors, and family, community, and organizational culture. Based on these reviews, a retention decision-making model incorporating all domains was proposed. This publication presents a preliminary model of the career/retention decision-making process. In addition to the effect of job factors, the impact of family concerns and processes on retention and career decision-making is explored. Five retention and family issues are identified and discussed in detail: economics and retention, job factors and retention, family factors and retention, community variables and retention/turnover, and organizational culture and retention. The comprehensive model of family retention decision-making is based on information from these five areas. The proposed model provides direction to family and retention research. It is the first comprehensive model of retention as both an outcome and a process. The Army needs to have a process model of the family career/retention decision-making process to find ways to encourage the best soldiers and their families to make the Army a career.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA223225

Entities

People

  • Albert Glickman
  • Dennis Orthner
  • Gary L. Bowen
  • George Farkas
  • Gerald M. Croan
  • Glenda Y. Nogami
  • Paul A. Gade
  • Trueman R. Tremble Jr.

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Business Administration
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Families (Human)
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Families
  • Military Organizations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Personnel Retention
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Social Sciences

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Organizational Psychology.