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<p>The purpose of this project is to find the optimal combination of retention base incentives offered by the  Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) community. The SWO community has experienced the lowest junior officer retention  rate of all Unrestricted Line Officer (URL) communities since the early 1990's. The community is required to  maintain at least 275 junior officers annually, in order to fill operational Department Head billets, in support of  sustaining maritime mission requirements. Due to numerous community dissatisfiers, the SWO community has been  unable to produce the required force strength of 275 Department Heads. Induction of a monetary bonus was the  SWO community's answer to addressing its critical junior officer retention rates. But retention rates are still critically  low and are viewed negatively by many junior officers, because the monetary bonus doesn't address the reasons  junior officers are dissatisfied with the community. Several non-monetary incentives have been identified by junior  SWO as possible tools to increase retention rates. This project will build a Combinatorial Auction Model to include  both monetary and non-monetary incentives to determine which combination offers the greatest value to officers, at  least cost to the Navy's SWO community.
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<br>Subjects:</div>
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<dl><dd>Zegley, Christopher R.</dd>
<dd>Lewis, Chavius G.</dd>
<dd>Johnson, Derek N.</dd>
<dd>Denmond, Constance M.</dd></dl></div>
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