Toward Meaningful Measures of Personnel Turbulence.

摘要

Findings from previous wars and the wisdom of the senior leadership of the Army suggest that personnel turbulence within units is a significant obstacle to the development of effective units. This report is intended to summarize some of the substantial literature on personnel turbulence in Army units, provide some current evidence that recent efforts to include COHORT have not sufficiently reduced turbulence, and offer an approach to reduce turbulence through policy change. The report concludes that stability measurements should be instituted as part of the Unit Status Report (USR) and recommends a strawman set of measures for that purpose. Keywords: Combat unit cohesiveness; Cohesion; Turbulence; Leader development; Leadership; Climate; Readiness; Unit manning; Unit status Rpt (USR); Personnel management. (KT)