The Decision to Accept Or Decline Command

Résumé du livre

The study is an extension of a 1979 study which focused on highlighting critical factors contributing to acceptance or declination of command. Using an approved survey instrument. FY 82 officers were polled and requested to quantitatively indicate reactions to a wide range of factors which reflect characteristics of the current centralized command selection process. Additionally, respondents were requested to provide family data and career pattern information. Finally, respondents were requested to quantitatively evaluate their perceptions of key management aspects of the command selection process and provide narrative comments on individually derived considerations. Survey data was analyzed using automated correlation techniques. Narrative comments were catalogued, characterized and subjectively analyzed using a conceptual framework developed by the study group. Variations in trends were discernable among the three groups surveyed. Factors cited as extremely sensitive by the 06 respondent group tended to have a differing impact when considered by 05s and junior field grade students attending CGSC. Insensitive management procedures, turbulence, impacts on high school age children appear to be universally key aspects in all three groups.