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Fiscally informed total force manpower / Harry J. Thie ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manpower--United States.
- Manpower.
- United States--Armed Forces--Civilian employees.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Personnel management.
- United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States. Department of Defense--Officials and employees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 81 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp., c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents the results of a short-term review of 27 publicly available manpower studies to discover methods that other organizations could use to make "fiscally informed" manpower decisions.
- Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; This Study; Organization of This Monograph; Chapter Two - Manpower Requirements: Then to Now; Historical Trends in Manpower Requirements Studies; Drivers of Manpower Requirements-Force Structure Reviews; DoD Provides Guidance for Manpower Planning; Chapter Three - Existing Documentation, Studies, and Analysis; Toward a Taxonomy of Manpower Requirements Studies; Chapter Four - Observations; Most Studies Are External; Most Studies Are Prescriptive; Implementation Not Documented
- Mission, Environment, Resources, and Processes: What to Study? Multiple Views of Fiscally Informed, Total-Force Decisions Exist; "What Counts" and "How to Count" Are Not Specified; Undocumented Reviews Tend to Have Implementation; Chapter Five - Fifty Years of Manpower Tradeoffs: What Has Happened?; Manpower Tradeoffs; Results of Tradeoffs Accumulate over Long Periods; Chapter Six - Conclusions; Appendix - Studies; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-81).
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73646-5
- 0-8330-4486-9
- OCLC:
- 476182990
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