Unauthorized Absence, Desertion, and Attrition Rates for First-Term Navy Enlisted: A Twelve-Year Perspective.

摘要

The high rates of first-term attrition and desertion among naval personnel in recent years have become of increasing concern to manpower planners. Analysis of changing personnel characteristics and organizational policies, practices, and conditions as well as their relationships to first-term attrition are necessary to understand the nature and complexity of this problem. Excessive rates of enlisted turnover are both expensive and disruptive, wasting training investments and causing shortages of experienced personnel. This report provides a summary of historical information pertaining to selected factors that can be shown to affect attrition. Trends are examined over more than a decade to gain perspective on the problem and its probable causes.