Navy-wide Personnel Survey (NPS) 2003: Summary of Survey Results

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Quality of Life in the U.S. Navy: Impact on Performance and Career Continuance

“…These events unified the psyche of Americans and may have renewed Navy members' sense of mission and the crucial role they play in carrying out the U.S. national defense strategy. This increased sense of mission could well have led to improved perceptions of QOL for the current job and shipboard life domains and, through a general increase in purpose and morale, to increasingly favorable perceptions of other life domains (see also Defense Manpower Data Center [DMDC], 2008;Whittam, Janega, & Olmsted, 2005). Future Navy personnel surveys could include items measuring the impact of 9/11 on mission commitment and determine whether the perceived increases in QOL are maintained over time.…”

Shipboard Habitability in the U.S. Navy

“…They were performed separately for enlisted and officers given that (a) they differ in their backgrounds, education, roles, and career paths; (b) they have been shown to differ in their perceptions of QOL in the Navy (e.g., Whittam, Janega, & Olmsted, 2005;Wilcove & Schwerin, 2002); and (c) the results broken out in this way could be useful to enlisted and officer policy makers and managers. 120 WILCOVE AND SCHWERIN SUDAAN (Release 8.0.1; Research Triangle Institute International, 2002) was used to determine the percentage of sailors who were satisfied (i.e., completely satisfied, satisfied, or somewhat satisfied), dissatisfied (i.e., completely dissatisfied, dissatisfied, or somewhat dissatisfied), or neutral in attitude.…”