Zahava Doering

Abstract : Research on the motivation and morale of military personnel should consider the kinds of personnel attracted to the armed forces and the current and future experience composition of the forces. In the U.S. military, some dramatic changes have taken place since the transition to the All-Volunteer Force (AFV) and, perhaps more importantly, will continue over the next decade. One research objective is to determine the connection between the job performance of individuals who are attracted at different wage levels. Another research objective has been to assess the effectiveness of current policies through an examination of the types of individuals who separate from the military, both prior to and at the ends of enlistment contracts. In this paper, we restrict our focus to a selected review of research findings and methods for studying the dual issues of attrition and retention. Attrition, in this context, is defined as separation prior to the completion of agree upon terms of military service.

Abstract : Research on the motivation and morale of military personnel should consider the kinds of personnel attracted to the armed forces and the current and future experience composition of the forces. In the U.S. military, some dramatic changes have taken place since the transition to the All-Volunteer Force (AFV) and, perhaps more importantly, will continue over the next decade. One research objective is to determine the connection between the job performance of individuals who are attracted at different wage levels. Another research objective has been to assess the effectiveness of current policies through an examination of the types of individuals who separate from the military, both prior to and at the ends of enlistment contracts. In this paper, we restrict our focus to a selected review of research findings and methods for studying the dual issues of attrition and retention. Attrition, in this context, is defined as separation prior to the completion of agree upon terms of military service.

... ED223896 - Description of Officers and Enlisted Personnel in the US Armed Forces. A Reference for Military Manpower Analysis. ... ERIC #: ED223896. Title: Description of Officers and Enlisted Personnel in the US Armed Forces. A Reference for Military Manpower Analysis. ...

The past year has seen museums, monuments, and memorials hostage to competing narratives of affirmation and condemnation of the very foundations of the United States. Protests and demonstrations demanding a racial reckoning for Black Americans specifically, and all racial/ethnic minority groups, more generally, were added to an existing tsunami of social upheavals. The months of institutional lockdowns, restricted population movement, and a precipitous economic downturn that resulted from the global COVID-19 pandemic have taken a toll. As of this writing, the outcome of the 2020 presidential election portends either a continuation of the present or some relief to the recent governmental instability. After the initial disbelief, as COVID-19 spread unabated, museums around the globe turned to the internet as an alternative to their physical presence. Some pivoted with agility drawing on internal resources and creativity; others lumbered and needed external help. Most created digital analogs of physical offerings, others imagined new forms of interaction and many scurried to document and collect stories and material evidence from the pandemic. In this issue, the responses of cultural institutions and consortia, from Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C. to Biel, Switzerland and Xi’an, China provide vivid examples. Very few institutions strayed from their avowed missions and collected or distributed food, assisted community members with emergency needs, or provided desperately needed practical and emotional support (DOERING 2020). Museum responses to the calls for a racial reckoning have been mostly eloquent but vapid in support of Black Lives Matter; many promises limited, however, in constructive or innovative approaches to solving institutional racism, enacting major changes in managerial or operational structures, in plans to decolonize collections, or include

Smithsonian Institution, Office of Policy and Analysis entitled: From Reptile Houses to Reptile Discovery Centers A Study of the Reptile Discovery Centers Project at the National Zoological Park, Zoo Atlanta and the Dallas Zoo, published December 1994.

This report presents the results of a 1997 study of the exhibition Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The aim of the study was to investigate visitors' responses to the exhibition's display techniques and to better understand the preferences that visitors bring to Asian art museums. The study used two principal methods: exploratory recorded interviews and a systematic survey. Among Puja display elements, the texts and shrines were viewed by most visitors and found especially rewarding. The narrative video also was very highly regarded, although it was viewed by fewer visitors. Exploratory conversations with visitors about previous satisfying experiences with Asian art in museums led to a list of ten categories, here called "approach modes." These categories, in turn, were used to create statements summarizing the different kinds of experience individuals said they found satisfying. These statements are abb...

Abstract : This report is a contribution to the on-going evaluation of the effectiveness of DoD family policy; they also provide tools for the identification of future areas for policy action. This report is primarily based on data from the 1985 DoD Survey of Military Spouses conducted for OASD(FM&P) by DMDC. Over 41,000 military spouses, married to members of all four active-duty Services, responded to an extensive questionnaire in Spring 1985. The questionnaire included items about personal and family military background, family composition, family moving experiences, knowledge of and satisfaction with family programs and services, civilian labor-force experience and opportunities, economic resources and satisfaction with various aspects of military policy which directly impacts the family. Some major findings are: Majorities of military personnel, especially officers are married. Nearly 60% of all enlisted personnel are married. Military families, especially enlisted, are young, as measured by the wife's age and age of children and duration of marriage. A sizeable minority of wives and husbands of military personnel, especially enlisted, were born outside the U.S. Spouses of military personnel are well-educated. Officers wives tend to be older than enlisted men's wives. About one-fourth of families are currently located overseas.

Abstract : This study program seeks to develop broad strategies and specific solutions for dealing with present and future defense manpower problems. These goals require new methodologies for examining broad classes of manpower problems as well as specific problem-oriented research. In addition to analyzing current and future manpower issues, it is hoped that this study program will contribute to a better general understanding of the manpower problems confronting the Department of Defense. A key component of the program is the development of DoD-wide data bases that can support the policy research and analysis necessary for dealing with present and future defense manpower problems. Such data should include information about the behavior, experiences, attitudes, preferences, and intentions of military personnel. Particularly if collected on a periodic basis, these data would be helpful in assessing the response of military personnel to past or current policy chanes and could be used to identify future areas for policy action. This note provides an overview of the design together with a description of the field procedures for one of the major data bases created in this program.

Abstract : Contents are: Sample Design and Response Rates; Contents of the Data Files; Data Processing and Data Limitations; Item-by-Item Specifications for 1979 DoD Survey of Personnel Entering Military Service: Form 3; and Item-by-Item Specifications for 1979 DoD Survey of Personnel Entering Military Service: Form 4.

This author believes that museums risk societal irrelevance, unless they effect profound changes in response to calls for inclusiveness and equity on the part of Blacks, Latinx, and other disenfranchised groups. She makes specific suggestions in multiple areas: Museums should pledge to fill positions with people of color and from other marginalized minorities. Hiring should privilege societal accomplishments and life experience over age, gender, and education credentials. Museum boards must include community representatives with the same rights as donors. Exhibition topics should be relevant to the lives of community members and spaces beyond museum buildings should be used as venues. Current exhibitions and collections, or even complete museums, should be re‐interpreted by people represented in them. Decolonization efforts should include a national portal of items with suspect provenance and the Eurocentric nomenclature for cataloging should be revised. Overall, museums must promot...

This reviewer’s essay represents an odyssey, from question to print, that started in December 2019 with a visit to the exhibition, Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. It was inspired by a view of New York's Statue of Liberty, seen through the rustling of tall trees, planted in 2003 by Holocaust survivors on New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage’s terrace. As she looked out – and for many days since – she’s worked to understand the “why” of this exhibition and others like it. This reflective essay begins with a descriptive, non‐judgmental account of the Auschwitz exhibition, followed by a review and discussion of the exhibition’s impact and strategies. It explores whether the Auschwitz exhibition does, live up to the potential and the promise of its title. The author views the exhibition’s effectiveness through a behavioral lens; i.e., activities and actions extending beyond the exhibition. The essay concludes with the broader question of whether Holocaust exhibitions, and othe...