Outsourcing
Subtitle: short term costs and human resource issues
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: MILITARY DOWNSIZING; VOLUNTEERS; LIFE CYCLE COSTS
Description: OMB Circular A-76 provides guidance for estimating the cost of commercial activities that are candidates for outsourcing. The benefits of outsourcing these activities are greater efficiency, better service, and reduced costs. However, outsourcing has experienced very lifetime success. This is in large part due to DOD's reluctance to rely on inorganic assets, resistance from Congress and the executive branch, public-employee union's criticism, improper incentives for Base Commanders, prohibitive short term costs and the cumbersome A-76 requirements. To realize the benefits of outsourcing DOD must: fund programs that encourage volunteer separation, streamline the requirements of the A-76 Circular, provide training for employees who complete the A-76, provide activities incentives to complete the process, fund outsourcing's short term costs, fund staffs trained to handle outsourcing's human resources issues, and seek modification of current bumping and retreating policies.
Notes: Thesis advisors, William R. Gates, James Kerber.

AD-A331 814.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).