Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Aten, Kathryn J.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	Across the reserve force there are communities, occupational fields, and grades with persistent manning shortfall in non-obligor populations. Non-obligor reservists are volunteers with each individual reservist having well developed a rationale and reasons for affiliating and not affiliating with a reserve unit. Monetary methods are the primary incentive employed to induce reservists to affiliate and fill billets with shortfalls. Money has had a positive impact, but the utilization of monetary incentives is not based upon a deep understanding of the underlying individual reservist's motivations. A study which develops a deeper understanding of individual non-obligor reservist's motivations and rationale for affiliating with reserve units would allow for more efficient targeting of monetary methods and the development of non-monetary incentives that address an individual's objections which are not influenced by money.
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