Gender Integration in the Navy

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This essay is written from the point of view of a senior Navy Admiral concerned about how to implement a new policy that calls for further gender integration during ship's sea deployments. The paper discusses his problem's solution, which lies in leveraging the informal organizational culture of the Navy to get the policy implemented.

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"Paper Title Furthering Gender Integration At Sea: An Exercise in Changing Organizational Behavior Body of paper... As Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, my single most important consideration is maintaining the highest level of combat readiness and effectiveness among the ships and stations under my operational jurisdiction. As a Naval Officer, what's more, I am accustomed to following the orders I'm given from superiors without fail and without exception. Organizationally, the Armed Forces are unlike any other institution in this respect. The command structure is unwaveringly hierarchical for a reason. In combat, individual lives depend upon unit cohesion and unit cohesion is maintained only when there is a readily identifiable chain-of-command."

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