Who is Joint? New Evidence from the 2005 Joint Officer Management Census Survey

by Kirby, Sheila Nataraj; Crego, Al; Thie, Harry J.; Harrell, Margaret C.; Curry, Kimberly

• ISBN13: 9780833039194
• ISBN10: 0833039199
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

The Department of Defense has an identified need to update the practice, policy, and law applied to Joint Officer Management and Joint Professional Military Education. As a lead-in to this study, the 2005 Joint Officer Management Census survey polled officers serving in billets. The authors examine the extent to which officers believe their jobs provide them with joint experience or require joint education or experience and examine how respondents' answers differ across organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Figures	ix
Tables	xi
Summary	xv
Acknowledgments	xxvii
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xxix
Introduction	1	(8)
Background and Purpose of Study	1	(1)
Purpose of This Report	2	(1)
Caveats	3	(1)
Terminology	3	(4)
Joint Duty Assignment	3	(1)
Joint Duty Assignment List	4	(1)
Critical Joint Duty Assignments	4	(1)
Critical Occupation Specialty (COS) Officer	4	(1)
Joint Duty Credit	5	(1)
Joint Professional Military Education	5	(1)
JSO Designation	6	(1)
Joint Task Force	6	(1)
Cumulative Joint Duty Credit	6	(1)
Organization of This Report	7	(2)
Survey Methodology	9	(10)
Billet Identification	9	(2)
Protocol	11	(2)
Fielding the Survey	13	(2)
Response Rates	15	(3)
Summary	18	(1)
Overview of Survey Billets and Survey Respondents	19	(16)
Characteristics of Surveyed Billets	20	(5)
JDAL Status	21	(1)
Major Billet Organization	21	(4)
Characteristics of All Survey Respondents	25	(2)
Incumbency Status	25	(1)
Service Affiliation and Paygrade	25	(2)
Characteristics of Billet Incumbents	27	(5)
Length of Service	27	(1)
Time in Billet	27	(1)
Occupational Distribution	27	(1)
Education, Credit for JPME I and JPME II, and JSO Status of Incumbents, Grades O-4 and Higher	28	(4)
Summary	32	(3)
Officers' Interactions with Organizations and Various Types of Personnel	35	(12)
Officers' Responses on Frequency of Interaction with Organizations	35	(3)
Frequent Interactions with Organizations: Differences Across Major Billet Organizations	38	(3)
Average Number of Frequent Interactions with ``Non-Own-Service'' Organizations	41	(2)
Frequent Interactions with Types of Personnel: Differences by JDAL Category and Major Billet Organization	43	(2)
Average Number of Non-Own-Service Personnel with Whom Officers Interact Frequently	45	(1)
Summary	45	(2)
Typical Roles and Responsibilities of Officers Serving in Joint or Potential Joint Billets	47	(32)
Categorization of Officers' Jobs and Primary Focus of Their Work	47	(3)
Tasks Typically Performed in a Billet, Allocation of Time to Tasks, and Relative Importance of Tasks to Job	50	(25)
JDAL Category	50	(8)
Major Billet Organizations	58	(17)
Level of Responsibility for Tasks	75	(1)
Summary	76	(3)
Knowledge and Experience Required or Helpful for Job Performance and Experience Gained Through Billet Assignments	79	(22)
Specific Types of Knowledge	79	(9)
Usefulness of Specific Types of Knowledge	79	(3)
Knowledge Gained Through Job Assignment	82	(4)
Linking the Types of Knowledge Necessary for a Billet and Gained Through a Billet Assignment to Performance of ``Highly Joint'' Tasks	86	(2)
Joint Training and Education, Experience, and Expertise	88	(5)
Value of JPME I, JPME II, Other Joint Training and Education, and Prior Joint Experience	88	(1)
Importance of Primary Specialty and Knowledge of Service's Capabilities	89	(2)
Most Important Skill/Expertise/Experience for Job	91	(2)
Types of Experience Provided by a Billet	93	(3)
Summary	96	(5)
Optimal Length of Joint Duty Assignments, Value of Temporary Assignments, and Other Issues Regarding Duties and Experience	101	(6)
Optimal Length of Joint Duty Assignments	101	(1)
Value of Temporary JTF Assignments	102	(1)
Ability of a Civilian or an Officer from Another Service to Perform Respondents' Duties	102	(2)
Uniqueness of Experience	104	(1)
Summary	105	(2)
Using Survey Data to Estimate Current and Projected Demand for and Supply of Joint Officers	107	(84)
Current and Projected Joint Officer Supply	107	(3)
Current Supply of Joint Officers	108	(1)
Projected Supply of Joint Officers	109	(1)
Demand for Joint Officers	110	(7)
Need for JPME II	111	(1)
Need for Prior Joint Experience	111	(2)
Need for JSOs	113	(1)
Estimating Future Needs	113	(4)
APPENDIX
2005 Joint Officer Management Census Survey Form	117	(22)
Frequencies, Means, and Standard Deviations of Responses to the 2005 Joint Officer Management Census Survey Questions	139	(26)
Supporting Tables for Chapter Six on Required or Helpful Types of Knowledge and Experience	165	(26)
Bibliography	191