Developing senior Navy leaders : requirements for flag officer expertise today and in the future / Lawrence M. Hanser ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanser, Lawrence M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Admirals--United States.

Admirals.

Leadership.

United States. Navy--Officers--Training of.

United States.

United States. Navy--Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Rand National Defense Research Institute, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Could U.S. Navy officers be better prepared to become flag officers? This study examines the kinds of expertise required for successful performance in Navy flag billets, and whether recent pools of officers possess this experience. The authors also examine Navy trends over the past decade to identify the types of expertise likely to become more important for Navy leaders in the future.

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Recommendations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; Organization of This Monograph; CHAPTER TWO Background; Flag Officers Serve in a Wide Range of Billets; What Kinds of Officers Lead the Navy?; CHAPTER THREE A Framework for Understanding Flag Officer Billet Requirements; Domain Expertise; Leadership, Management, and Enterprise Expertise; Identifying the Requirements for Expertise; The Job Book Documents Area-of-Expertise and Other Billet Requirements; CHAPTER FOUR A Closer Look at Expertise Requirements

Flexibility in Primary Area of Expertise Secondary Areas of Expertise; Importance of Leadership, Management, and Enterprise Expertise; Relating Expertise Requirements to Pre-Flag Officer Development; Flag Officer Requirements Have Critical Bottlenecks; Reconciling the Constraining Requirements; CHAPTER FIVE Matching Domain Expertise to Billets in the Navy Flag Officer Force; Modeling the Average Flows of Inventory in the Flag Officer Ranks; Application of the Data in the Model; Some Results from a Sample Run of the Model; Concluding Remarks

CHAPTER SIX RDML Selectees: Comparison with Model-Determined Requirements Characterizing the Supply; Can All the Identified Expertise Pairs Be Used?; Are All Necessary Expertise Pairs Available Among the Six Cohorts?; A Final Word on the Gap Analysis; CHAPTER SEVEN An Exploration of Future Requirements; How We Derived Future Expertise Requirements; Summary of Future Significant Impacts on Required Areas of Expertise; Organizational and Structural Changes; Development Changes; Operational Strategy Changes; Technology Acquisitions; The Relevance of Current Expertise for the Future

Potentially Uncaptured Areas of Expertise CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusions and Recommendations; Conclusions; Recommendations; APPENDIX A Flag Billet Titles; APPENDIX B Definitions of Domain Expertise; APPENDIX C Cross-Functional Expertise; APPENDIX D Survey Screenshots and Additional Definitions Used in the Survey; APPENDIX E Formulation of the Mathematical Program to Determine Average Flows of Inventory Through the Flag Officer Ranks; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151).

ISBN:

1-281-73654-6

9786611736545

0-8330-4521-0

OCLC:

476183030