Published: 1980
Total Pages: 134
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This Note breaks the overall USAF manpower, personnel and training (MPT) system, documented in the companion volume (R-2429-AF), into two subsystems: (1) an authorization/assignment subsystem and(2) a manpower requirements/personnel objectives subsystem. The first subsystem focuses on the short term; it allocates authorizations in accordance with manpower requirements and budgetary limitations and it recruits, trains, and assigns people to fill authorized positions. The second subsystem focuses on the long term; it develops operational manning guidelines and overall workforce structure plans and personnel policies. Our approach here is evaluative. The purpose is to combine understandings obtained during our system-descriptive work, inferences drawn from readily available historical data, and logical criticisms of the system's operation to identify promising areas for system improvement and/or research. The perspectives provided by reviewing the MPT system from these short-term and long-term viewpoints permit identification of important interrelationships among system components which might otherwise go unnoticed. (Author).