Evasão de jovens oficiais das forças armadas: propostas para enfrentar este inimigo

Abstract

A significant number of junior officers has left Brazil’s Armed Forces in recent years. Many of them were approved in official examinations for governmental posts. An aspect normally pointed as a disadvantage in military career is salary, for being less attractive than those of some careers of the public service. Brazil invests significant resources to graduate an officer and do not have the expected return when he abandons the career so precociously. Questions asked to senior officers, important portion of the internal public, demonstrate the opinion that salary is a strong influence in the decision of quitting the carrer. Questions asked to some of the junior officers that have left the Armed Forces make evident the reasons that influenced them the most to decide for quitting their military careers. The analysis of the collected data identifies behavior problems in the military organizations. In order to help commanding officers reduce the evasion of junior officers, it proposes some procedures, focused on motivational aspects, that will improve professional relations