a. Summary. Manpower management officers conduct and participate in manpower related studies to ensure that sound management techniques are used at all levels of manpower management.

b. Requirements/Prerequisites

(1) Complete the Manpower, Personnel and Training Analysis curriculum number 847 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, or equivalent postgraduate degree from an accredited institution. The following are mandatory minimum course requirements to be Completed by those Marines not graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA:

(a) Multivariate Data Analysis;

(b) Personal Testing and Selection;

(c) Job Analysis and Personal Training;

(d) Manpower Economics I and II;

(e) Manpower/Personnel Policy Analysis;

(f) Manpower and Personnel Models;

(g) Manpower Requirements Determination.

c. Duties

(1) Assists the commander in developing management policy and implementing management techniques throughout the command; studies, surveys, and analyzes objectives, policies, procedures, organization, and administrative actions within the command to assess the effect of management policy.

(2) Seeks to uncover areas in need of revised management techniques.

(3) Uses statistical data, economic theory, and mathematical techniques to establish the comparative factor and alternatives available to managers for decision making.

(4) Analyzes the management process for potential increased efficiency and work simplification through the application of automatic data processing techniques and quantitative techniques; i.e., systems analysis, management engineering principles, and operations research techniques.

(5) Participates in those management actions which support the command's budget requests and in the resource allocation efforts subsequent to budget approval.

(6) Applies knowledge of management control, human relations, personnel principles, and social implications of defense management to personnel research projects, such as OccFld structuring, retention objectives, and force management.

d. Related DOT Classification/DOT Code. Management Analyst 161.167-010.

Information Derived From MCO P1200.7V Part 1. Current as of Nov 00