A survey of officer career values in the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps and their effect on retention

This study examined to attitudes of Army and Marine Corps officers towards a set of career rewards, investigated the probability that these officers would receive the desired career rewards during their military careers and attempted to determine what relationship existed between the officers'' perceptions of important career rewards and their decision to remain in or leave the military. A survey was conducted on a random sample of 92 Army officers from the 7th Infantry Division, Ft. Ord, California and 119 Marine Corps officers from the 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. The results indicated that intrinsic rewards were perceived, overall, more important than extrinsic rewards. Further, respondents perceived the probability of receiving these important intrinsic rewards as quite low. This perception was found to correlate highly with the officers' career decisions.

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Administrative Sciences

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1979

Authors dc:creator

• Dudley, Robert Michael
• Hoyle, Richard Denis

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• McGonigal, Richard A.
• Rousseau, Denise M.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/18885

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/18885