Developing Junior Noncommissioned Officer Supervisors in the United States Air Force

<p>This thesis examines a possible leadership tool the U.S. Air Force could create to develop junior noncommissioned officers (NCOs) into more effective supervisors. The end-state of this analysis is to identify the reasons there is a demand for this type of product and the potential components of a tool that shows junior NCOs how to conduct their supervisory roles and responsibilities. In order to assess the requirement for supervisory tool the researcher sought to analyze the current challenges facing junior NCOs in today's 21st Century Air Force. These challenges divided into two areas for ease of study and examination including The Air Force Culture and Air Expeditionary Force Spectrum of Operations. To answer the secondary question of what a supervisory tool would look like this research sought to analyze the gap that exists between the training junior NCOs receive on their supervisory responsibilities and the guidance of how to accomplish those responsibilities. Supervisory responsibilities that would benefit from the development of guidance on how to accomplish them and including this guidance into a comprehensive supervisory tool would answer the question of what it would look like.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>