The problem of turnover has become one of major importance to both Industry and the milItary. The costs of even a small turnover are great In terms of money, personnel utilization, training, and time, The frustration experienced by those who leave an organization, as well as that felt by those-who failed In their performance of selecting and training these Individuals, results In a huge waste of human energy. The reduction In turnover would Improve any organization's program of human utilization and also Its financial position (Lawler, 1970). Because of the high costs accrued from attrItion, a study of the relationships of turnover with other variables could prove to be beneficial and profitable. The Initial step In the study of turnover Is to determine which characterIstics differentiate between those who leave an organization and those who stay within an organization. Within the military the knowledge of the distinctive characteristics of those who either remain within th6 organization or leave it would be helpful In the subsequent selection of men to be enlisted Into the allvol unteer force. During the last decade Plag and his associates (1966, 1967) have studied the relationships of naval enlistee characteristics and the subsequent performance of V,. those men during their first tours of duty. Predictors of success or failure In completing a term of enlistment have been examined end from these re.earch efforts odds for effectiveness have evolved. Briefly stated, a man's odds for effectiveness are mathematically determined by using combinations of four variables; number Výy of arrests, number of suspensions and expulsions from school, years of education completed, and score on the Armed Forces Quelification Test. These odds for effectiveness have been compi led Into actuarial tables which provide the recruiter 4Auwmwed Wa publi Meeowe D~atibuto U11~s
From April, 1967 until September, 1972, 1517 naval recruits at San Diego were assigned to the Academic Remedial Training Division after having failed to pass the initial academic test because of a reading disability. The rate of effectiveness (being on active duty or successfully completing an enlistment) for those men assigned to remedial reading and for a control sample of recruits not assigned to such training as well as to evaluate the predictive validity of variables related to effectiveness for men assigned to the remedial program was studied. Results indicated that 53.5% of the remedial readers and 62.3% of the controls were effective; higher values of final reading level, the Armed Forces Qualification Test, and educational attainment were predictive of military effectiveness. In addition to helping remedial readers remain on active duty, the academic remedial training program may have helped more than half of all men assigned to the school to perform effectively in the Navy.
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