Factors to consider in blending active and reserve manpower within military units / Harry J. Thie ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thie, Harry.

United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Series:

Rand Corporation monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Armed Forces--Personnel management.

United States.

Armed Forces.

Personnel management.

Manpower policy--United States.

Manpower policy.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 116 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2007.

Summary:

The Department of Defense has suggested that "blending" active component and reserve component workforces in military units must be implemented more broadly to better capitalize on the capabilities and strengths of the reserve components, thus leading to a more flexible, capable force. RAND researchers examined existing organizational designs that facilitate integration of the reserve and active workforces to ascertain whether changed personnel management practices are needed to help implement those organizational designs. They reviewed service reports and directives and other relevant literature on the subject, including the organizational change literature, and interviewed service officials and subject matter experts. They conclude that workforce integration efforts aimed at improving operational accomplishment of mission, balancing operations tempo, and increasing capital asset utilization would be more successful than efforts aimed at other goals, such as resolving personnel management differences. The authors recommend that adapting what works within a service to other functional areas in the service is a better near-term workforce integration strategy than replicating forms of integration across services; that the services should provide policy guidance for workforce integration; and that the services should consider performing more evaluation of workforce integration against the goals they have set out for it.

This product is part of the RAND Corporation monograph series. RAND monographs present major research findings that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors. All RAND monographs undergo rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity.

Contents:

Research Questions 2

Methodology 3

Organization 3

Chapter 2 Why Workforce Integration? 5

Goals and Considerations 7

Is Integration a Means or an End? 9

Integration as Means 9

Integration as End 10

Chapter 3 Military Workforce Integration in Theory and Practice 11

Military Integration in General 11

Organizational Theory as a Basis for Integration 12

Workforce Integration 13

Workforce Integration in Practice 14

What Kinds of Units Have Integrated Workforces? 17

How Many Units Have Integrated Workforces? 17

Chapter 4 Enabling and Constraining Factors 19

Workforce Integration Factors 19

Relationship of Factors 23

Chapter 5 Implications for Personnel Management 25

Personnel Management 25

Generalized Workforce Differences 26

Entering 26

Developing 27

Promoting 28

Transitioning 28

Other Factors to Consider in Workforce Integration 28

Promotion and Command 28

Is Administrative Integration Needed for Workforce Integration? 30

Chapter 6 Workforce Integration: Other Considerations 33

Cascades of Process Change 33

Challenges to Integration 34

Workforce Integration Has Implications for Work and the Workforce 36

Chapter 7 Concluding Observations and Recommendations 39

Observations 39

Recommendations 40

A Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Army 43

B Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Coast Guard 55

C Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Marine Corps 65

D Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Air Force 75

E Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Navy 93

F Private-Sector Workforce Integration 99.

Notes:

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-116).

ISBN:

9780833040039

0833040030

OCLC:

123391091