NCJ Number
86535
Date Published
1979
Length
60 pages
Annotation
This Air Force Occupational Survey of the Security Police career ladders focuses on job structure and career ladder analyses, task difficulty, training emphasis, and job satisfaction indicators.
Abstract
This study examines the Air Force Security Police career ladders through tasks performed by a worldwide representative sample of security police personnel. The data obtained are intended to assist career field managers, trainers, and planners in determining the most efficient way of classifying, managing, and training security police. The data collection instrument was Job Inventory AFPTS 90-811-137 and 90-812-138. The task list contained 540 tasks which cover the spectrum of security police responsibilities. The survey instrument also provides extensive background information on the respondents. The 4,508 respondents composing the final sample represented 14 percent of the 33,078 personnel assigned at the time of the survey. The structure of jobs within the security police career filed was determined on the basis of the similarity of tasks performed and the percent of time ratings provided by job incumbents. The career ladder analysis examined the tasks performed by incumbents at each of the skill levels for each career ladder (security career ladder and law enforcement career ladder). The analysis of tasks performed at each skill level in each ladder revealed a relatively logical and orderly pattern of job and career progression. Tasks generally rated as difficult to learn to perform were not performed by the more junior personnel, while those tasks with high training emphasis values were performed by relatively large percentages of first-term personnel. Personnel in the security ladder do not find their jobs as interesting as do the law enforcement personnel; however, security respondents do perceive that their training is well used. Tabular data are appended.