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9780833040039

Factors to Consider in Blending Active and Reserve Manpower Within Military Units

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  • ISBN13:

    9780833040039

  • ISBN10:

    0833040030

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-25
  • Publisher: RAND Corporation
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Summary

The Department of Defense has suggested that "blending" active component and reserve component workforces in military units must be implemented more broadly to better capitalize on the capabilities and strengths of the reserve components, thus leading to a more flexible, capable force. RAND researchers examined existing organizational designs that facilitate integration of the reserve and active workforces to ascertain whether changed personnel management practices are needed to help implement those organizational designs. They reviewed service reports and directives and other relevant literature on the subject, including the organizational change literature, and interviewed service officials and subject matter experts. They conclude that workforce integration efforts aimed at improving operational accomplishment of mission, balancing operations tempo, and increasing capital asset utilization would be more successful than efforts aimed at other goals, such as resolving personnel management differences. The authors recommend that adapting what works within a service to other functional areas in the service is a better near-term workforce integration strategy than replicating forms of integration across services; that the services should provide policy guidance for workforce integration; and that the services should consider performing more evaluation of workforce integration against the goals they have set out for it.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. iii
Figure and Tablesp. ix
Summaryp. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xix
Abbreviationsp. xxi
Introductionp. 1
Research Questionsp. 2
Methodologyp. 3
Organizationp. 3
Why Workforce Integration?p. 5
Goals and Considerationsp. 7
Is Integration a Means or an End?p. 9
Integration as Meansp. 9
Integration as Endp. 10
Military Workforce Integration in Theory and Practicep. 11
Military Integration in Generalp. 11
Organizational Theory as a Basis for Integrationp. 12
Workforce Integrationp. 13
Workforce Integration in Practicep. 14
What Kinds of Units Have Integrated Workforces?p. 17
How Many Units Have Integrated Workforces?p. 17
Enabling and Constraining Factorsp. 19
Workforce Integration Factorsp. 19
Relationship of Factorsp. 23
Implications for Personnel Managementp. 25
Personnel Managementp. 25
Generalized Workforce Differencesp. 26
Enteringp. 26
Developingp. 27
Promotingp. 28
Transitioningp. 28
Other Factors to Consider in Workforce Integrationp. 28
Promotion and Commandp. 28
Is Administrative Integration Needed for Workforce Integration?p. 30
Workforce Integration: Other Considerationsp. 33
Cascades of Process Changep. 33
Challenges to Integrationp. 34
Workforce Integration Has Implications for Work and the Workforcep. 36
Concluding Observations and Recommendationsp. 39
Observationsp. 39
Recommendationsp. 40
Appendix
Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Armyp. 43
Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Coast Guardp. 55
Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Marine Corpsp. 65
Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Air Forcep. 75
Integration of the Active Component and Reserve Components in the Navyp. 93
Private-Sector Workforce Integrationp. 99
Bibliographyp. 109
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