MSPB is sending a Merit Principles Survey, saying that it “has asked participating agencies to instruct supervisors to allow employees work time to complete the survey.”
Filling out the online survey–which asks questions concerning the merit system principles, the prohibited personnel practices, and selected aspects of the work experience and human resources management—will take about 30 minutes of working time, it said.
Agency cooperation is required by a law that authorizes MSPB to obtain agency support and records needed to evaluate the civil service, it said. “We have notified major federal employee unions of the survey and asked them to support their members’ participation,” MSPB added in a fact sheet it posted online.
There are three separate versions of the survey, although participants will receive only one. They will receive an advance notification and an invitation through their work email with a link to the survey.
About 120,000 front-line employees and managers were selected randomly “using a sample designed to produce a statistically sound measure of employee opinion,” it added.
