Summary information

Study title

Human Resources Management in SAF: Contractual reserve, Families and Demobilization, 2009

Creator

Prebilič, Vladimir (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Defence Research Centre)

Kopač, Erik (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Defence Research Centre)

Study number / PID

CVSVRC09 (ADP)

URN:SI:UNI-LJ-FDV:ADP:CVSVRC09 (NUK)

https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_CVSVRC09_V1 (doi)

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Human Resources Management in SAF: Reserve, Families, and Demobilization

The Slovenian army is defined as a professional army supplemented by a contract reserve, which means that the army with permanent and contract composition are complementary components of the military organization. The military reserve was considered from the point of view of the relationship of the members themselves to their secondary service, whereby three key processes were studied: recruitment, development and management of members (in terms of contract renewal and use in military deployments abroad). The issue of the contract reserve, in accordance with the design of the project,...

Abstract

One of the surveyed populations, defined in the "Human factor in the military system" project, is represented by military reserve officers - former reservists who finished their training at the Reserve officer training school. This target population represents an important source for refilling the structure of volunteer military reserve. Former participants in the Reserve officer training school program were mostly carefully selected from a wider pool of recruits, as they were mostly highly educated and proved themselves by being recognized as potential candidates in their environment. At the point of recruiting, they were also recognized by the structure of Slovenian Army as appropriate for serving as reserve units officers. In the research on reserve officers, the focus was on those characteristics, which are crucial for the understanding of the target population and also on those, which could nowadays be used for increasing the engagement of reserve officers in the contracted reserve structure. The main goal of the research is to collect useful data which could later be used for development of appropriate strategies on inclusion, preservation and managing this potential resource inside of the Slovenian Armed Forces structure.One of the surveyed populations, defined in the "Human factor in the military system" project, is represented by military reserve officers - former reservists who finished their training at the Reserve officer training school. This target population represents an important source for refilling the structure of volunteer military reserve. Former participants in the Reserve officer training school program were mostly carefully selected from a wider pool of recruits, as they were mostly highly educated and proved themselves by being recognized as potential candidates in their environment. At the point of recruiting, they were also recognized by the structure of Slovenian Army as appropriate for serving as reserve units officers. In the...

Sociology of labour, sociology of enterpriseInternational politics and organisationsConflict, security and peaceVALUE SYSTEM

Slovenian Army Contract reservistSlovenian armed forcesSlovenian Armed Forces ReserveEmployerWork abroadApplication processMILITARY EDUCATIONARMED FORCESTRUSTAPPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT

Data collection period

03/2009 - 05/2009

Country

Slovenia

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Military reserve officers and former reservists who finished their training at the Reserve officer training school (ŠČVE). The school was active between 1992 and 2003, so until the point in time when Slovene Army turned into a professional one. By the Ministry of Defense register, the number of all reserve officers of military units is 517. It is crucial to initially highlight the gender homogeneity of the population, because the chance of being accepted to the reserve officers school was given only to servicemen. As serving the army was obligatory for the male part of the Slovene population, the survey population consists of male units only. The age structure of the population is also important. Respecting the facts that the ŠČVE existed between 1992 and 2003 and that its units were of bigger size in the last century, the age structure with the majority of officers being older than 30 years, could be expected. It should also be taken into account that because of the employment needs, the possibility and inclusion of reserve officers was much more extensive in the nineties as it has been with the last ŠČVE generations of officers. Consequently we can conclude that the population is age homogeneous.

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

NumericNumeric

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Grant number

1000-07-880224

Publisher

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

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