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

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.