Shaping Senior Leader Officer Talent: How Personnel Management Decisions and Attrition Impact the Flow of Army Officer Talent Throughout the Officer Career Model

Abstract

Army Officers play a critical role in our nation's security strategy. Throughout a career of service, officers develop talents through a unique and rare set of experiences, education, and formal training. The demand by corporations for these talents, coupled with a distinct feature of the Officer Career Model, limited lateral entry, create significant retention challenges for the U.S. Army. Understanding how personnel policies, resources, and organizational decisions affect the flow of officer talent through the Officer Career Model is a first step in addressing these retention challenges. This analysis employs discrete event simulation to quantify the probable impacts of attrition on the distribution of talent available for service across the Army's officer ranks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA554291

Entities

People

  • David Lyle
  • Matthew F. Dabkowski
  • Paul Kucik
  • Samuel H. Huddleston

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Attrition
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Order Statistics
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Systems Analysis and Design