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Social Support and Navy Recruit Retention
Ended (2005-10-01 - 2007-03-31)
Batelle
Abstract
This contract is to provide support for faculty members researching recruit retention in the Navy. It involves assisting in a review of the scientific literature on the relationship between social support and turnover in organizations, managing a longitudinal data file and assisting in the interpretation of statistical analyses, and co-authoring technical reports and professional publications.
Social Structure, Social Systems, and Social Networks: Configurational Applications to Military Personnel And Operational Issues
Current (2004-11-01 - 2008-10-31)
Army
Abstract
The Center for Research on Military Organization proposes a research program responsive to two research interests identified in the Army Research Institute’s 2005 Broad Agency Announcement (Social Structures, and Social Systems and Networks) and relevant to a third (Leadership). We seek to understand how changing societal conditions affect the Army, how emerging social systems and networks affect military organization and operations, and how these processes impact soldier recruitment, retention, performance, and development. We will apply techniques of configurational analysis that combine network and more traditional approaches to social structure to data sources at multiple levels of analysis. We will provide analyses identifying important dimensions of change in American youth, including demographic composition, military perceptions, and work-related attitudes and values. We will analyze the multiple social roles soldiers play and the degree to which they affect development of a common military identity. We will analyze gender construction in the military. We will analyze the effects of changes in the relationship between the military and its environment. We will demonstrate how social network analyses can be applied at multiple levels to understand micro-processes such as the development of unit cohesion as well as macro-processes such as the growth and organization of insurgencies.
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