OPM, which has been pushing agencies to use results of the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to inform their personnel practices, has cited itself as an example of how that can be done.
In a blog post, acting director Beth Cobert said that “it’s up to each agency to use this feedback . . . One of the most important pillars of the President’s Management Agenda calls on agencies to improve employee engagement.”
She said that OPM has used the results to increase information about what is happening around the agency; create workshops for employees and supervisors; enhance employee resource groups; relaunch a mentoring program; expand diversity and inclusion dialogs; and provide more opportunities for employees to get to know senior leaders through brown bag lunches.
Cobert made the pitch as a way of encouraging employees to complete the survey, which is closing in stages this week and next. Last year about half responded.
However, only 39 percent of respondents expressed confidence that the results of the survey will be used to make their agency a better place to work. That was up from 38 percent the prior two years but down from 42 percent in 2012 and from the 45 percent range of 2010-2011.
