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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220159803321

Titolo

Fiscally informed total force manpower / / Harry J. Thie [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Monica, CA, : Rand Corp., c2008

ISBN

1-281-73646-5

0-8330-4486-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 81 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

ThieHarry

Disciplina

355.6/10973

Soggetti

Manpower - United States

United States Armed Forces Civilian employees

United States Armed Forces Personnel management

United States Armed Forces Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-81).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.