Methodology for Measuring the Efficient Use of Available Resources in Air Force Civil Engineering Organizations.

摘要

The purpose of this thesis was to determine if a quantitative model of the efficient use of available resources could be developed for Base Level Civil Engineering organizations. Available resources included personnel, material supplies and vehicle resources and was limited to those resources used in the Operations Branch. The modeling technique used in this research effort was the Constrained Facet Analysis (CFA) which can evaluate an organization based on a set of multiple outputs and multiple inputs. The set of outputs and inputs were simultaneously evaluated to produce one efficiency rating for each organization in the data set. The model also identified the relative importance of each output/input variable and identified the surplus variables causing the inefficient rating in the inefficient organizations. The analysis was accomplished by collecting data from the civil engineering organization within the Tactical Air Command. The data was analyzed using the CFA program at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. The results illustrated that the efficient use of available resources could be modeled using the CFA technique. Originator-supplied keywords include: Productivity, and Resource Management.