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<p>This project provides an example of a decision support tool for personnel assignments, built using software available on government information systems.  The primary purpose of this tool is to assist manpower management professionals in making personnel assignment decisions.  This tool augments decision making by analyzing potential movers in groups and maximizing their personal preferences while minimizing the number of government-funded geographic relocations.  This tool uses Microsoft Access forms as the manpower manager’s user interface for data input and analysis.  The mover’s user interface can exist on any authorized survey service.  In the background, Microsoft Access tools and a cloud-based Python online-integrated development environment are used to collect and process relevant data and perform calculations.  The results of this project show a substantial reduction in the number of geographic relocations while assigning personnel to their top-choice jobs.  If these results can be replicated on the actual population, the impact could include increased personnel retention rates and reduced spending on geographic reassignments, with minimal investment. The author recommends implementing this tool and its supporting concepts into the current manpower selection and assignment process.
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<br>Subjects: manpower; personnel; assignment; optimization; preference; cost saving; integer programming; Marine Corps; USMC; enlisted; talent management; decision support tool</div>
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Goudyrev, Ivan O.</div>
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