by Arthur Thomas Coumbe, Steven J. Condly, William L. Skimmyhorn · 2017
ISBN: 1584877758 9781584877752
Category: Education / Testing & Measurement
Page count: 423
Still Soldiers and Scholars? sheds light on a neglected aspect of talent management, namely, officer accessions testing and evaluation. It does so by tracing the history of officer testing since 1900, identifying and analyzing key developments in the assessment process, and then offering recommendations about how the Army should revise its approach to officer testing. This book supplements a series of monographs written by the Army¿s Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) and published by the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) in 2009 and 2010. In those monographs, the authors proposed an officer corps strategy based on the theory of talent management. This book is a necessary first step in reforming the Army¿s officer accessions effort in order to better align it with the Army¿s talent-based approach to officer management.