Investigation Into the Feasibility of Establishing Manpower Standards for Major Air Command Engineering and Services Organizations

摘要

There currently exists no set of generic manpower standards universally applicable to Major Air Command Engineering and Services organizations. Abilities to accurately plan and program manpower requirements are severely impacted, utilization efficiencies are being missed, and manpower actions are being made without any quantifiable support. This research attempted to develop a generic manpower standard for the Housing and Services Branch of Engineering and Services Deputates. Air Force Logistics Command, Air Force Systems Command, and Tactical Air Command were participating commands. Because of varying command structures, a modular approach was used to develop standards for categories of work. Work sampling techniques were used to gather manhour data as a percentage of time spent per day in various categories; this was later converted to manhours. The sampling consisted of recording observations of work categories at random times. Descriptive workload factors and their values were obtained by questioning participants. Classical, stepwise regression was used to develop descriptive models for each job category. Results were evaluated by combining the resultant of each model and comparing to present levels. Many different workload factors were identified as potentially descriptive; they were significant from a relationship standpoint but not regression-wise. Many solid descriptors could not meet specified acceptance criteria. Extreme multi-collinearity was present due to factor selection. The presence of heteroscedasticity did not permit adequate evaluation- even after using data transformations. This research was not entirely successful, but it did prove the feasibility of standards development.