ARI

Modeling Employee Choices

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Every day, employees make choices. Many of these choices carry significant implications for organizations. In a highly competitive environment, knowledge of employee preferences and how these preferences influence their choices (e.g., to join or stay with an organization) is crucial to hiring and retaining top talent. Unfortunately, this knowledge often comes too late, after a decision has already been made.

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Training the Digital Force

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The U.S. Army has made a substantial investment and a strong institutional commitment to harnessing the power of technology to provide significant advantages on the battlefield. Command and control, situational awareness, target acquisition and identification, and improved system lethality have been affected and influenced by the new-found power of the microprocessor. This entire effort has come under the heading of digitization.

Improving Cultural Communication Skills

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Special Forces (SF) of the United States Army perform missions requiring them to teach, negotiate, and operate with people from different cultures. To succeed in such missions, SF soldiers must understand these cultures and possess the communication skills necessary to work effectively with host nation counterparts or coalition forces.

Policies to Improve Junior Officer Retention

Policies to Improve Junior Officer Retention

Army officers are accessed through a variety of avenues, including Officer Candidate School (OCS), the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), and the United States Military Academy (USMA). The latter two paths can represent a substantial investment on the part of the Army. Over one third of ROTC graduates receive financial assistance to complete their education, and all USMA cadets attend the academy on full scholarship.

COMPLETRS-II

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The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) contracted with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) to provide non-personal, short- and medium-term, scientific and technical support services in the solution of ARI problems related to manpower and personnel. Projects conducted under COMPLETRS fall into one of the following three programs:

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