FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE COMMITMENT OF MILITARY STUDENTS TO PROFESSION

Abstract

The process of professionalizing the
Romanian army reflected, at institutional level, on all
aspects in the human resource field: recruitment, career
management, conversion and retaining. Under the
conditions of Romanian population decrease and in
strong competitiveness from the labour market, the
army sought efficient means to ensure effective loyalty
of the persons recruited. However, as public institution,
the army may have a major impact on objective
factors that influence the loyalty of its employees and
that can meet the subjective factors related to each
individual. The concern for the retention of recruits
begins, of course, ever since the military training base,
in academies of the kind in the country. To identify the
factors influencing the level of commitment of students
to the military profession we have built a questionnaire
that lists 40 significant features of the latter. Students
were asked to evaluate the importance of these features
for their commitment to the military profession. The
factor analysis had as result the detaining of six factors
with a significant impact.