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The cost of a military person-year : a method for computing savings from force reductions / Carl J. Dahlman.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Dahlman, Carl Johan, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Armed Forces--Pay, allowances, etc.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Civilian employees--Cost effectiveness.
- United States. Army--Cost control.
- United States. Army--Personnel management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 131 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2007.
- Summary:
- The Department of Defense strives to only use military personnel for military-essential tasks and has consistently recommended the civilianization of ever-more military functions and positions. This guidance also stems from the belief that military personnel cost more than comparable civilians. As a policy, civilianization can only be properly applied when it is an integral element of a broader personnel-management strategy. This work presents a new method of estimating the cost of a military person-year that focuses on the actual cost of the retirement benefits that the federal government must provide to military personal. It provides a better foundation for the development of a broad, force-shaping strategy than previously available measures that focused only on annual retirement-fund accrual costs. A major implication of this alternative calculus is that truly effective force management-using strategic human-resources principles to identify the proper mix of age and experience in the personnel inventory-requires an increased focus on the cost of personnel.
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