Training Management

Research Brief

Making the LAPD a Model for Training Police Officers in the 21st Century — Jan 1, 2003

This research brief describes work documented in Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department (MR-1745-LAPD).

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• Public Safety Research Area

Journal Article

The Effect of Male Wage Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage — Jan 1, 2002

Growing wage inequality appears to have had little effect on the marriage behavior of less-educated black women.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

Report

Ensuring Successful Personnel Management in the Department of Homeland Security — Jan 1, 2002

Identifies the characteristics of effective personnel management to help the new Department of Homeland Security develop its HR system.

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• National Security Research Area

Journal Article

Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality of Males in the United States: 1967-1991 — Jan 1, 2001

The author examines how these trends are related to changes in the distribution of wages and hours and the returns to education.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

Journal Article

Investing in the Future: Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments — Jan 1, 2001

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• Population and Aging Research Area

Journal Article

The Value of Remaining Lifetime Is Close to Estimated Values of Life — Jan 1, 2001

Workers under 50 on average will spend 10-20% of their future hours working.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Journal Article

Income and Mental Health: Unraveling Community and Individual Level Relationships — Jan 1, 2001

Explores the relationships between mental disorders and socioeconomic status and environment and find a strong association between individual income and mental health.

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• The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
• Health and Health Care Research Area

Journal Article

Workforce Development in Emerging Industries — Jan 1, 2000

Workforce Development in Emerging Industries

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A Study of Overhead Rate Behavior at a U.S. Air Force Base in the Context of A-76 Competitions — Jan 1, 2000

This dissertation discusses the benefits and risks of outsourcing and presents a model for estimating overhead savings resulting from outsourcing such activities.

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Military Compensation in the Age of Two-Income Households: Adding Spouses' Earnings to the Compensation Policy Mix — Jan 1, 2000

Analysis of Current Population Survey data and the 1992 DoD Survey of Officers, Enlisted Personnel, and their Spouses demonstrate that the spouses of soldiers and airmen incur the heaviest burden of earnings penalty due to service specific factors.

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• National Security Research Area

Report

Interagency and International Assignments and Officer Career Management — Jan 1, 1999

Provides RAND'S assessment of the feasibility and advisability of establishing a cadre of officers whose assignments and schooling would ensure a viable career track in which these officers would serve in interagency and international assignments.

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• Research Brief
• National Security Research Area

Report

Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review — Jan 1, 1998

Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review

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• Education and the Arts Research Area

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Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces — Jan 1, 1998

This insightful study chronicles the progress made over the last 50 years with the desegregation of the U.S. military.

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• National Security Research Area

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Outsourcing of DoD Commercial Activities: Impacts on Civil Service Employees — Jan 1, 1997

Develop recommendations for improving the productivity of the civil service workforce (making it more competitive in outsourcing cost-comparison studies) and making the cost-comparison process fairer to government employees.

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Relating Resources to Personnel Readiness: Use of Army Strength Management Models — Jan 1, 1997

The connection between resources and readiness is receiving heightened interest at a time when a more austere defense budget and reduced force structures coincide with a range of security challenges.

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Research Brief

DoD Outsourcing: How Civil Service Employees Fare — Jan 1, 1997

What factors affect the competitiveness of civil service employees in the cost-comparison process used to evaluate outsourcing possibilities; and what are the impacts of past and future outsourcings on civil service employees?

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• Related Report

Journal Article

The Effects of Treatment Team Diversity and Size on Assessments of Team Functioning — Jan 1, 1996

Results indicate that individuals who operate on more heterogeneous and larger teams have lower perceptions of team functioning.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Report

Expanding Private Production of Defense Services — Jan 1, 1996

Considered whether the Department of Defense (DoD) should contract out — outsource — support services that DoD now produces in-house and, if so, (1) which services DoD should outsource and (2) what DoD can do to make outsourcing more cost-effective.

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Enlisted Personnel Management: A Historical Perspective — Jan 1, 1996

Presents a historical view of enlisted force management, from two perspectives.

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Report

Global Preparedness and Human Resources: College and Corporate Perspectives — Jan 1, 1994

Using replicated case studies of 16 corporate and 16 academic institutions, this research explored the ways in which U.S. corporations and institutions of higher education understand globalism and their perceptions of its human resource implications.::

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