The Partnership’s analysis states that “effective leadership continues to be the key driver for federal employees in 2015, as it has been every year since the rankings were first launched in 2003″—and that the trends are somewhat positive.
The measure of effective leadership overall improved by 1.2 points to 51.6 percent, while specific aspects of leadership saw similar increases: empowerment of employees, up 1.3 to 44.1; matching employee skills to the mission, up 0.8 to 75.2; and fairness, up 0.6 to 52.5.
It adds that senior leaders–defined as the heads of departments and agencies as well as their immediate leadership teams; the teams typically include career executives and political appointees—”have routinely been given relatively low ratings by their employees.” That remained 43.8, the lowest of any leadership-related measure, although up by 1.4 points.
Employees had higher opinions of their immediate supervisors, though, at 62.8 percent, up 1.3 points.
Other aspects related to leadership edged up by 1-2 points, including strategic management, teamwork, innovation, training and development, work-life balance, support for diversity and performance-based rewards and advancement.
