DTIC ADA636017: PACER SHARE Productivity and Personnel Management Demonstration: Appendices to Third-Year Evaluation

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PACER SHARE Productivity
and Personnel Management
Demonstration
Appendices to Third-Year
Evaluation
Bruce R. Orvis, James R. Hosek,
Michael G. Mattock
with Rebecca M. Mazel, Iva S. Maclennan
National Defense Research Institute
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RAND
PACER SHARE Productivity
and Personnel Management
Demonstration
Appendices to Third-Year
Evaluation
Bruce R. Orvis, James R. Hosek,
Michael G. Mattock
with Rebecca M. Maze!, Iva S. Maclennan
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PREFACE
This report contains the appendices of MR-310 P&R, which describes
the P.''I.CER SHARE Demonstration Project and the p:an ::hat has been
developed to evaluate it. The report also presents statistical :r:eo;ulls
concerning qualic:y of work life, organizational flexibility, work
quality, and productivity during the baseline period prior to the
demonstration and through its third year. The appendices include the
survey questio:maire used in the third-year evaL:tation and provide
supplementary statistical results.
The study is funded by the u.S. Air Force through a special
arrangemen~ with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness, the research sponsor. It is being carried out
by the Defense Manpower Research Center, a component of the National
Defense Research Institute, RAND's federal::_y funded research and
development center sponsored by the Oifice of the Secretary of Defense
and the Joint Staff.

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CONTENTS
Preface ...................... . iii
T<Jobles .............. . vii
Appendix
A. YEAR 'l'EREE FOLLOI'.'-'JP SURV:o;:Y QlJESTJONNAIRE.................. 1
B. SUPPLEMENTAL SURVEY RESULTS................................ 37
C. ADDITIONAL RESULTS FOR PERSONNEL MEASURES.................. 330
D. ADDITIONAL RESULTS FOR QUALITY MEASURES.................. 362
BlBLIOGRAPIJY ..................................................... . 3 83

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TABLES
8.1. Xeans for All Variables, Nonsupervisors ..... 10
B.:J. Xeans for All Variables, Supervisors .. 62
B. 3. V.eans for Sca:..es, Nonsupc:~:vir:;ors ........................... . 86
8. 4. )feans for Scales, Supervisor a ........................... . 91
I3.5. Regression Results for Va:~:ia~Jles, All Employees ............ . 96
8.6. kegression Results for Scalea, All Employees ............. . 237
B. 7. Reg:~:ession Results for Supc~vi.so:~:s, Variables and
Scales . . . . . . . . ........................................ . 2 59
8.8. Regression Results for New Variables, All Employees ...... . 288
8.9. V:eans for Ite~s Added in Year Three ........................ . 3 0 5
B.lO. Regression Results for ALtitude Scales, controlling for
Responses to Year-Three Itema ............................... 309
C.l. Year 3: Salaries by Experie~ce Level (Pay Baed),
Supervisory and Nonsupervisory Salaries .................... . 333
c. 2. Regression Re~;ults for Salaries by Experience Level
(Pay Band) . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... . 334
c. 3. Year 3: Supervision Levels (Percentage of Work Force) .... . 343
c. 4. Regression Results for Supervision Levels ................. . 344
c. 5. Year 3: Percentage of Career Employees ............. . 348
C.6. Regression Results for Perce~tage of Career Employees ...... . 34 9
c. 7. "Multiple Skill 1'rai:1ing, Skill Base of Work Force .......... . 35?.
c. 8. Regression Results for !1ultiple Skill Training, Skill
Ra~;e ot Work Force ..... . 3 53
c. 9. Pay Schedule Crossovers ........... . 354
C.lO. Turnover ..................... . 306
c. 11. Turnover by Career Category ................................. 358
C.l2. ':'urnover by Pay Schedule .................................... 360
D.l. ':'-Test Results for !oleasures of Wol:'k Accuracy: Quality
D~vision =ndicators ................ . 365
D.2. Regression Results for Measur-es of Work Accuracy:
Reports of Discrepancies ............................. . 366
D.3. Regression Results for Measuces of Timcl iness and Issue
Support: !1anagemcnt Divisio:1 Jndicators .................... 369
D.4. Annual Error Rates (perccn~) for Meas~rcs o: Work
Accuracy, Quality Division Indicators ...................... . 373
D. 5. Annua:::. Percentages for Timeliness and Issue Support,
Management Divisio:-1 Indicator-s ............................. . 379