A Predictive Model of Surface Warfare Officer Retention: Factors Affecting Turnover.

Abstract

Junior Surface Warfare Officer retention is in a crisis. The Surface Warfare Officer community anticipates an inability to fill Department Head billets due to the number of junior Surface Warfare Officers leaving military service. The goal of this study was to predict Surface Warfare Officer retention levels through the validation of a conceptual model from the Surface Warfare Community Manager's office using logistic regression and Classification and Regression Tree analysis. This study utilized data from the Officer Master File and the results from a questionnaire administered to active duty Surface Warfare Officers. Manpower analysts can use this model to predict whether certain groups of officers, with a given set of characteristics, are more likely to remain in military service.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA362176

Entities

People

  • Gregory D. Gjurich

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Classification
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Demography
  • Employment
  • Information Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.