An Analysis of Promotion and Retention Factors Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Marine Corps Officers

Abstract

Hispanics are the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S. This thesis reviews Marine Corps policies on the recruitment, retention, and promotion of talented officers of a diverse background, and applies quantitative multivariate analysis methods to identify pre-commissioning and post-commissioning factors, such as college performance, accession source, military training and fitness report scores that explain any differences in job performance measures of Marine Corps officers of different ethnic backgrounds. Using data on 7,780 Marine Corps officers commissioned from 1999 to 2004, the findings from multivariate regression analysis show that Hispanic Marine Corps officers have a greater likelihood of retention but no difference in fitness report performance and no difference in the probability of promotion to O4 in comparison to non-Hispanic officers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA620716

Entities

People

  • Mateo E. Salas

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Hispanics
  • Information Science
  • Instructors
  • Military Education
  • Military Training
  • Minority Groups
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States Naval Academy

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  • Naval Personnel Management