Research Catalog

Title

Retention and promotion of high-quality civil service workers in the Department of Defense acquisition workforce / Christopher Guo, Philip Hall-Partyka, Susan M. Gates.

Author

Guo, Christopher

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Hall-Partyka, Philip
• Gates, Susan M., 1968-
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body.

Description

xv, 53 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

"The defense acquisition workforce (AW) includes more than 151,000 military and civilian personnel who provide a range of acquisition, technology, and logistics support (products and services) to the nation's warfighters. This report examines data from Defense Manpower Data Center files and draws from previous related RAND analyses to address questions about factors that affect personnel retention and career advancement in the AW. First, it examines available measures of personnel quality and explores whether personnel retention and career advancement vary by quality. A higher average performance rating is generally associated with an increased hazard of separation (decreased retention). On the other hand, individuals with advanced education degrees (bachelor's, master's, or PhD) are more likely to be retained than those with less than a bachelor's degree. Second, the report describes the characteristics of workers who rise to the senior executive service within the AW. Third, it explores how being in the Acquisition Demonstration pay plan or another demonstration pay plan affects retention, after controlling for workforce quality metrics. People who were in the Acquisition Demonstration pay plan and, in fact, any demonstration pay plan were retained longer than those in the General Schedule."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• United States. Department of Defense > Selection and appointment
• United States. Department of Defense > Turnover
• United States. Department of Defense > Personnel management
• United States > Civilian employees

Note

• "RR-748-OSD"
• "Rand National Defense Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 53).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Retention of high-quality civil service workers in the acquisition workforce -- SES profile comparison -- Effects of acquisition demonstration pay plan on retention -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Kaplan-Meier survival functions -- Appendix B: Robustness checks -- Appendix C: AcqDemo robustness.

ISBN

• 0833087827
• 9780833087829

OCLC

898086869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library