Bruce R. Orvis

Effect of Personnel Quality on the Performance of Patriot Air Defense System Operators

This report examines the linkage between the quality of enlisted personnel (in terms of aptitude score) and their ability to operate the Patriot air d...

Pacer Share Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration

Second Year Evaluation

This report describes the PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration and the plan that has been developed to evaluate it. PACER S...

PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration Baseline Evaluation

PACER SHARE is a five-year demonstration whose purpose is to determine whether several changes in federal civil service practices will improve organiz...

Design of Field-based Crosstraining Programs and Implications for Readiness

As part of a broad effort to reduce defense expenditures, the Army is exploring a number of new approaches to training individual soldiers. Prominent ...

Hispanic Representation in the Department of Defense Civilian Workforce

Trend and Barrier Analysis

Hispanics are less represented in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) civilian workforce than in the federal civilian workforce and the civilian labo...

Quality-based Analysis Capability for National Youth Surveys

Development, Application, and Implications for Policy

This report develops and applies a method of using the information contained in national youth surveys to estimate the probability that respondents wo...

Analysis of Youth Cohort Enlistment Intention Data

Progress Report

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Alcohol Problems

Patterns and Prevalence in the U.S. Air Force

Examines the nature and extent of alcohol-related problems among Air Force and comparable populations, based on special surveys, official records, and...

Recent Recruiting Trends and Their Implications

Preliminary Analysis and Recommendations

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Ensuring Personnel Readiness in the Army Reserve Components

Many of the units the U.S. Army plans to deploy in response to future contingencies are in the Reserve Components (RC). Although all such units would ...

Military Recruiting Outlook

Recent Trends in Enlistment Propensity and Conversion of Potential Enlisted Supply

This report describes recruiting trends through early 1995, focusing on changes in youth enlistment propensity and the Army's ability to "convert" the...

Army Enlistment Options Optimizer

Research Approach, Findings, and Implications

The authors developed a wide set of Army enlistment options that bundle bonus and less-costly non-bonus incentives. Survey respondents choose the opti...

Increasing Participation in Army Continuing Education

EArmyU and Effects of Possible Program Changes

The Army offers a continuing education program called eArmyU (an e-learning, computer-based program) that allows soldiers to earn college credits and ...

PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration

Appendices to third-year evaluation

This report contains the appendices of RAND/MR-310-P&R, which describes the PACER SHARE Demonstration Project and the plan that has been developed to ...

Developing a National Recruiting Difficulty Index

"This research was conducted within the RAND Arroyo Center's Personnel, Training, and Health Program"--Preface (page iii)....

Recruiting Strategies to Support the Army's All-volunteer Force

"This report describes research conducted to improve the Army's ability to use recruiting resources and enlistment eligibility policies effectively to...

The Control of Alcohol Problems in the U.S. Air Force

This report is an evaluation of the Air Force's Alcohol Abuse Control Program, aimed at reducing the incidence of alcohol problems and rehabilitating ...

The Effect of the Assessment of Recruit Motivation and Strength (ARMS) Program on Army Accessions and Attrition

The fraction of American youth meeting U.S. Army enlistment standards for weight and body fat has declined markedly. In response, the Army developed a...

Enlistment Among Applicants for Military Service - Determinants and Incentives

This report presents findings on three research issues, drawing primarily on results from the 1983 Survey of Military Applicants, a survey of male you...

End-Of-Pilot Assessment of the U. S. Army's Consolidated Recruiting Program

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandated a pilot test of a program in which Army recruiters were authorized to rec...

Prospective Outcome Assessment for Alternative Recruit Selection Policies

To help the Army select recruits more likely complete their first term and avoid adverse outcomes, this report describes a tool that estimates how cha...

Resources Required to Meet the U.S. Army Reserve's Enlisted Recruiting Requirements Under Alternative Recruiting Goals, Conditions, and Eligibility Policies

Several U.S. Army resources and policies work together to produce recruits. The authors present a model--the Reserve Recruiting Resource Model--design...

Pacer Share Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration

First-year Evaluation

This report describes the PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration, the plan that has been developed to evaluate it, and presen...

Improving the Department of the Army's Marketing for Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention of Civilians in Critical Occupations

This report presents the results of analyses intended to build a strong Army Civilian brand--that is, to help the Army assess and strengthen its abili...

Validity and Usefulness of Enlistment Intention Information

In synthesizing the results of several years' analysis, this study reports on the validity and application of enlistment intention information for non...

PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration

Third Year Evaluation

This report describes the PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration and the plan that has been developed to evaluate it. The rep...

Strategic Planning Tools for the Army Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Program

The Army must monitor Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) units to ensure that it attracts and commissions highly-qualified officers. Two new stra...

Quantifying Potential Cost Avoidance Implications of Outcomes Reported in Behavioral and Social Science Research

This report summarizes and develops utility functions for a series of behavioral and social science studies to help senior leaders translate the resea...

Addressing the Friction Between the Army's People First Initiatives and Its Readiness Generation Process

The authors examined friction between the U.S. Army's People First objectives (which focus on command climate, cohesive teams, career goals, and work-...

Strengthening Prior Service-Civil Life Gains and Continuum of Service Accessions Into the Army¿S Reserve Components

This report combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand service member decisions upon exiting the Regular Army, particularly the decis...

Resources Required to Meet the U.S. Army's Enlisted Recruiting Requirements Under Alternative Recruiting Goals, Conditions, and Eligibility Policies

The purpose of this research is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Army's use of recruiting resources and policies. A theoretical mode...

Military Recruiting

Trends, Outlook, and Implications

Based on indications of increased difficulty in meeting recruiting goals, in spring 1994 the Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy of Secretary of Defens...