Accession Number:

ADA516889

Title:

Mastering the Military Mid-Life Transition

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA

Personal Author(s):

• Caine, Bruce T.

Report Date:

1980-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

This article presents a summary of the key developmental events and challenges facing Army members during their late thirties and early forties so as to facilitate their own contingency planning for the central campaign of adult development at mid-life, or, in the case of those senior officers who have already negotiated these shoals, to better understand the predicaments of their subordinates. A crucial sequence of career events circumscribes and complicates this period of an officers life-a period of major physiological, emotional, and social transformations. How well we anticipate, plan for, and subsequently manage the mid-life transition will determine the structure of our later lives, both personally and professionally, and will affect our own performance as well as that of the units we lead before, during, and after the transition.

Descriptors:

• *TRANSITIONS
• *OFFICER PERSONNEL
• *PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
• *ARMY PERSONNEL
• CAREERS
• PLANNING
• INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
• FAMILIES(HUMAN)
• REPRINTS
• JOB SATISFACTION
• MANPOWER UTILIZATION
• RETIREMENT(PERSONNEL)
• PROMOTION(ADVANCEMENT)
• PERSONNEL RETENTION

Subject Categories:

• Personnel Management and Labor Relations
• Military Forces and Organizations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE