A decline in the pilot retention rate has prompted increased concern over the retention of naval aviators. In direct response to a Navy need, the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory was tasked to develop a comprehensive, aviation-specific inventory to assess factors influencing aviators to separate or remain in naval aviation. This report describes the methodology employed to develop the inventory. The inventory was developed solely from interviews with aviators. An inventory containing 212 statements organized into 10 distinct clusters was developed. Although the inventory is primarily designed to measure career satisfaction/dissatisfaction and retention/separation factors, secondary measures include factors contributing to career goals, career choice, peer support, and career success. The inventory should be administered to pilots and naval flight officers in various aviation communities to establish normative data. The leading satisfiers and dissatisfiers contributing to career retention and separation should be identified and analyzed by rank and designation. Personnel with inventory values disparate with normative data from their respective communities and rank should be compared against those with congruent values to determine if the inventory has any predictive utility with respect to retention.


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    Title :

    Development of a Naval Aviation Career Motivation Inventory


    Contributors:
    G. D. Gibb (author) / T. Nontasak (author) / A. Thomas (author) / W. R. Helm (author)

    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    17 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English