Training and Education of Financial Management Company Grade Officers
Abstract
In addition to its traditional combative role, over the past decade, America has called the Army to execute a number of non-traditional missions that range from the support of civil authorities at home to nation building abroad. Beyond the emergence of money as a new weapon system, the Army's expanded mission shows a need to have a trained, educated, and ready force able to deal with complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty. Using financial management company grade officers as its lenses, this paper examined the Army's systems, policies, and procedures for training and developing leaders in the institutional domain. The results of this examination identified several obstacles with the potential to undermine full implementation of the Army Leader Development Strategy - an antiquated system to resource training and education; challenges encountered in balancing technical, tactical, and critical thinking skill in the available time; and specific issues encountered by junior financial management officers. This paper concludes by providing recommendations to the Commandant of the Financial Management School of how to mitigate future risk associated with the training and education of company grade officers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 22, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA543104
Entities
People
- Randy Stevens
Organizations
- United States Army War College