Eighty percent of agencies say they hold managers and supervisors accountable for ensuring equal employment opportunity as part of their performance evaluations, a rate that is down by 3 percentage points from the prior year’s accounting, according to the most recent EEOC annual report on the federal workforce.
EEOC noted that its model guidance to agencies requires such evaluations, calling managers and supervisors crucial, along with the EEO and HR offices, to the success of EEO programs.
Nearly the same percentage has a written anti-harassment policy, also down by several percentage points.
The EEOC report also contains data on workforce demographics and the numbers, types and resolution of various forms of discrimination complaints. The report is at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/reports/fsp2009/index.cfm#exec.