Guest editors' note: Human resources and leadership lessons from the military

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia S. Cycyota ◽  
Claudia J. Ferrante
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
The Military ◽  
Leadership Lessons

Seeking the best: Leadership lessons from the military

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Loughlin ◽  
Kara A. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
The Military ◽  
Leadership Lessons

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nathan D. Ainspan and ◽  
Kristin N. Saboe
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
American Military ◽  
Civilian Employees ◽  
Veteran Employees ◽  
The Military ◽  
Insight Into

The introduction of this book explains how industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologists and human resources leaders can use I/O research and best practices to understand military veterans and military families. This knowledge can help employers find, hire, and retain veterans as civilian employees in their organizations. This chapter first describes the American military as an organization, the demographics of the military, and why service members and veterans are different from other groups of individuals; it offers insight into the types of individuals who self-select into the military and then describes how the military develops the traits, skills, and competencies (including nontechnical “soft” skills) that are in high demand but short supply in the civilian labor market. In concludes with an explanation of how the military culture impacts the service members and how these elements create veteran employees who may differ in their tenure and their performance in civilian organizations.

Managing human resources in the military

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Robert B. Jayme ◽  
Brian H. Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals On the Reflexive Formation of the “Human Capital” of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
N. Litvak ◽  
N. Pomozova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Current Task ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
The Military

Received 03.07.2020. This article represents a stage in a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of foreign policy institutions and personalities of the People’s Republic of China since the late 1990s. to November 2019. During this period there was a rapid growth in the economic, technological and cultural development of the country, which both allowed and demanded a greater foreign policy activity of China, which until then was focused on internal, maximum, regional problems. At the same time, people and institutions, that shaped and implemented this new foreign policy also developed and changed. The periods between the congresses of the Chinese Communist Party with the corresponding renewal of political leadership and foreign policy priorities correlate with the prevalence of human resources with certain biographical criteria (place of birth, higher education and practical work) in the Foreign Ministry and the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, those who were born in the East of the country, studied and worked in Europe, and not in the United States and Russia, as one might suppose on the basis of the discourse, for many decades concentrated on the military confrontation between the main nuclear powers. This article examines the biographies of key employees of the CPC International department in connection with the formation of foreign policy in the context of the overall development of China. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded, firstly, about the strengthening of the technocratic approach to foreign policy specialists, which takes into account, first of all, their expert qualities, even in such a party structure as the CPC Central Committee International department, instead of the ideological approach that dominated in the past. Secondly, personnel dynamics are influenced by the specifics of the work of the International Department, which is currently aimed at maximizing the implementation of opportunities for cooperation, primarily of an economic nature, in the Eurasian direction, while the Foreign Ministry has the main current task of confronting the United States and regional rivals. Third, the revealed correlation and long-term effects of such a personnel policy can also stimulate Russian activity in terms of training the next generations of foreign policy human resources on the Chinese direction.

scholarly journals Economics, Logistics, and (Human Resources) Management in Military Sciences

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Joseph Soeters
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Military Performance ◽  
The Military ◽  
Personnel Policies ◽  
Real Action

AbstractThis chapters aims to introduce the section on economics, logistics, and (human resources) management in military sciences. The military is best known for its successes, or the lack thereof, on the battlefield. In this context, topics such as tactics, military leadership, and command and emotions like courage and persistence are often studied. Less well familiar is the idea that military success and defeat are highly dependent on the way the military organization has been structured, prepared, trained, and equipped before the real action starts. Similarly, it is underestimated how much military performance depends on financial means, logistics, and human resources during the action. The idea that economics, logistics, personnel policies, and management are only relevant in peacetime conditions is simply wrong. This chapter uses historical examples and insights from current management theory and research to make this clear, and, at the same time, introduces which topics will be reviewed in the other chapters of the section on management, economics and logistics. These issues play at the national level but certainly also in the international arena where the different allies and competitors meet.

scholarly journals Considerations Regarding the Location and the Role of Organizational Culture in the Romanian Military Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Gabriela-Florina Nicoară ◽  
Sorin Gheorghe Pînzariu
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Military Institution ◽  
The Military

AbstractNowadays organizational human capital is an essential resource for any organization. Moreover, it gives the organization a significant competitive benefit. In that light, the aim of this article is to highlight how the activities carried out in the framework of human resources management influence the organizational culture in the military environment. Furthermore, our intention is to underline how the organizational culture within the military institution gets valences and inflection in relation to the practices of management which are implemented within the component of the human resources of the Romanian Army. The main methods we used in the present research were the personal observation and the study of the evidence.

scholarly journals Promotion of the Military Profession, Recruitment and Selection of Candidates. Conceptual Delimitations

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-229
Author(s):  
Aurelia Teodora Drăghici ◽  
Adina Eleonora Spînu
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Voluntary Service ◽  
Compulsory Military Service ◽  
Military Profession ◽  
The One ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
The Military ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Romania’s security interests and objectives, the army missions in the current geopolitical context and Romania’s obligations as a member of NATO have imposed the continuation of the process of quantitative and qualitative restructuring of the human resources and determined the decision to renounce compulsory military service in favor of the one based on volunteering, starting with the first of January of 2007. The transition from the army based on compulsory military service to the one based on voluntary service imposed the repositioning of the military profession on the Romanian labor market, especially in relation to the competition represented by other similar institutions.

scholarly journals Use of the Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in counter-subversive operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-408
Author(s):  
Marek Pytel ◽  
Mariusz Cieśla
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Territorial Defence ◽  
Quality Of Protection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Military ◽  
Practical Conduct ◽  
Freedom Of Action

The Territorial Defence Forces (TDF, Polish abbrev. WOT) are to participate in combat counter-subversive operations, alone or in cooperation with other security actors. Using both offensive and protective-defensive forms and methods, they will create freedom of action for operational troops. Precise reconnaissance of the area, infrastructure knowledge in permanent areas of responsibility (Polish abbrev. SRO), cooperation with the non-military system (Polish abbrev. UPM), and cooperation with the local population in combination with the training of the TDF commanders and soldiers equipped with modern weaponry, reconnaissance and object monitoring systems will ensure good quality of protection while reducing the number of human resources involved. All forms and methods of conducting combat counter-subversive activities presented in the article are a compilation of the content contained in the literature on the subject and the practical conduct of training classes with cadets and officers at the Military University of Land Forces.

scholarly journals Center-peripheral processes in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
O. С. Ковтун
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Conflict Zone ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
Negative Balance ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
The Military

This article presents the tendencies of the social development in Ukraine as a socio-territorial system. The demographic trends and tendencies of internal migration in Ukraine are considered from the perspective of the center-peripheral approach. The concept of the peripherization in Ukraine as well as the centralization of human resources is disclosed. As a result of the analysis of these outstanding trends, it was established that the center acts as an exploiter of regional human resources that at the same time creates additional risks of the regional development. The authors determine basic social mechanisms of regions peripherization. These include mainly the demographic degradation of the regions, what is reflected in the population reduction as a consequence of the negative natural population growth and migration which is concentrated around the center (Kyiv) and the semiperiphery (industrial regions). It is revealed that the internal migration movement manifests itself in two main forms: educational migration and labor migration. The educational migration in Ukraine is aimed at a small number of university centers, where the largest is the city of Kyiv. Therefore, despite the negative balance of the educational migration rates in most oblasts, Kyiv accumulates the largest amount of university entrants. It was also established that educational migration has not only quantitative but also a qualitative dimension. This is how the center primarily concentrates the most successful students. All listed causes a significant imbalance in the distribution of the intellectual potential of the country in favor for the center and increases its competitiveness regarding to the regions. The maintenance and the reproduction of this situation is also supported by the system of the scholarships distribution in Ukrainian Institutions of Higher Education. The similar migration trends are also observed in the labor sphere, what creates additional risks for the economic development of the regions. The tendencies for concentration of the national labor and intellectual potential in the center are denoted by the human resources centralization concept where this type of resources becomes the main interest, exploited by the center. As a consequence, we get the transformation of regions into the internal periphery of Ukraine. This process occurs unequally, depending on the basic competitive position of the region and its integration into the general socio-territorial structure. This is especially relevant for areas that are in or close to the military conflict zone. According to the main results of the research, there were outlined the following vectors for scientific elaboration: designing the criteria to escribe territories to the zones of the semi-periphery and periphery; further in-depth studying of peripherization mechanisms; defining ways to overcome the imbalances in the development of Ukraine as a socio-territorial integrity. 

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