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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
Published
Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
xv, 53 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Additional Creators
Hall-Partyka, Philip, Gates, Susan M., 1968-, Rand Corporation, and National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
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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.
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.
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ISBN
0833087827
9780833087829 (paperback)
Note
"Rand National Defense Research Institute."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 53).
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