Abstract: In this paper a marketing organization consisting of one grade with policy and transfer decisions forming two sources of depletion is considered. The problem of time to recruitment for this organization is analyzed when the breakdown threshold for the cumulative loss of manpower, a level of maximum allowable manpower depletion, have single component as the exponential threshold. A mathematical model is constructed and using univariate policy of recruitment based on the shock model approach, analytical results are obtained for the variance of time to recruitment by assuming that the loss in man power, inter-policy and inter-transfer decision times form three different sequences of independent and non-identically distributed exponential random variables.