Recruitment, Retention, Wastage, and Retirement: Career Patterns in the OfficerCorps of the British Armed Services 1970-82

摘要

A policymaking tool has been fashioned for those concerned with officerrecruitment and promotion policy. The tool is basically a transition matrix with elements that consist of the probabilities in any one year that, (a) a civilian will join the officer corps, or (b) a captain will be promoted to major, or (c) a major will exit the service for civilian life, and so forth. The size of the matrix at its fullest is determined by the number of discrete ranks plus the civilian status--say eleven. The number of elements within it would be 121 (11 x 11), although the value of many of these will be zero, corresponding to the near impossibility in normal times of promotion through more than one rank at a time.