The Army says that two surveys it conduced during fiscal 2007, the Army Civilian Attitude Survey and the Army Exit Survey, provide insight into why it civilian employees—and by extension, other federal employees—leave government service.
The attitude survey showed that employee and supervisor intentions to leave their current organization are largely driven by their level of overall satisfaction–specifically, satisfaction with management and the policies and practices of senior leaders were top factors that accounted for the largest amount of people’s decision to leave. Results from the exit survey similarly show that people leave because of their chances of getting promoted in the future, higher-level managers in their immediate organization and level of job stress, immediate supervisor, pay (excluding benefits), and current job duties and responsibilities, according to an Army civilian personnel publication.
All civilian employees who are serving on a permanent appointment and voluntarily separate from Army civilian service are encouraged to take the exit survey, located at:http://cpol.army.mil/library/survey/exitsurvey/.
