Stewardship - Rewarded or Punished

摘要

In 1998 the Army Chief of Staff proposed the following question to the Army War College Class of 1999 for research, 'Do the Army resource mechanisms truly reward stewardship.' Exactly what is meant by proper stewardship and how well do the Army's management systems support it. This paper answers these questions by examining two of the major resourcing models used by the Department of the Army (DA), the Army Installation Management - Headquarters Information (AIM-HI) Model for base operations and family programs, and the Training Resource Model (TRM) for operations tempo (OPTEMPO), to determine how well they reward or punish good stewardship. Given today's political and fiscal realities, good stewardship and good management often work at cross-purposes at different levels of defense. This can lead to resource management models that are counterproductive to proper stewardship and readiness.