Fiscal Year	2019
Division	Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department	Operations Research
Investigator(s)	Whitaker, Lyn R.
Sponsor	Office of People Analytics (DoD)
Summary	This work continues work for the Office of People Analytics (OPA), part of OSD(P&R). OPA has a mandate to enable data-driven personnel policy decisions across the Department, to include both military personnel and Department of Defense (DoD) civilians, through the use of analytics. Much of the focus of previous personnel related analysis has rightly been focused on military manpower, but relatively little emphasis has been placed to date on issues related to the civilian workforce (see as examples Goldenko (2014); Gates (2013) ). In particular, part of OPA's charter seeks to improve the use of analytics in the areas of talent management and retention for the enterprise, including the civilian workforce. The attrition of military personnel continues to be studied as a foundational area of talent management. This seems a logical starting point to begin gaining an understanding of the civilian workforce as well. We propose to continue examining available data to gain understanding of the drivers of DoD civilian workforce attrition and compare them to the factors that influence attrition in the U.S. Army active component. This year's work will include increasing the granularity of our work by for example including extra attributes in our survival analysis models and looking more closely at specific sub-populations of interest to OPA.
Keywords	Data Science civilian attrition survival analysis
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