Business the United States Military Term Paper

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The USMC has established an immediate, direct, and clear relationship between recruiting and socialization." (Baker & Jennings, 2000, p. 369) by "socialization," the United States Marine Corps (USMC) means the precise functioning of each individual Marine in relation to the entire corps. Every marine, like every soldier in the regular army, and every sailor in the Navy, is destined for a specific purpose. While military personnel may possess wide training in many different areas, there is nonetheless, a definite "military culture." Each and every member of America's Armed Forces - and those of all other nations as well - must fully understand how it is that they contribute to the organization tyo which they belong. The above-mentioned advertising campaigns focused mostly on very personal reasons for considering a military career. Unfortunately, personnel reasons do not always add up to the realities of military service, neither in terms of what the recruit can expect once he or she joins up, nor in terms of what the military expects from its recruits.

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This "socialization information" can be summed up as follows:

1) the value of receiving accurate pre-hire information has been well documented.

It has been suggested that the information supplied to the prospective employee is, in fact, an attempt to convey the organizational "culture"

3) That includes artifacts (audible and visible patterns of behavior, symbols, and rites), values (an individual's positive or negative response to the artifacts), and the underlying ideas and assumptions that ground the values and artifacts. (Baker & Jennings, 2000, p. 369)

The United States Marine Corps has made a concerted effort toward enunciating its particular culture of socialization, as this offers a more scientific method [than "feel-good" advertisements] of screening recruits, and….....

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