Analysis of Organizational Architectures for the Air Force Tuition Assistance Program

Abstract

The consideration of restructuring through a change in organizational architecture is often a fiercely debated issue within an organization. The argument for restructuring to improve quality, customer service, and financial management is pitted against perceived lack of job security and historically poor results from previous restructuring initiatives. To balance all sides when considering a change in organizational architecture, the organization should use a method of evaluating potential architectures that assists in determining the best new architecture and generates support from those involved. The objective of this research is to provide the Air Force Education Division with a defendable methodology for evaluating and selecting an organizational architecture. This thesis effort utilizes Value-Focused Thinking to develop a model that identifies the values associated with the management and execution of the Tuition Assistance (TA) program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA412741

Entities

People

  • Krista Z. Lapietra

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Customer Services
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Financial Management
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security
  • Space Systems
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design