OPM has announced the rollout of its 2010 federal employee viewpoint survey – formerly known as the federal human capital survey – and expects it to reach some half a million personnel by mid March.
The results will be used to determine how well the federal government is running its HR management systems, and it will give senior managers critical information to answer personnel questions, OPM said.
New items this year address employee engagement – an area the Merit Systems Protection Board has repeatedly emphasized as an indicator of mission success and productive employees – as well as work-life issues OPM described as essential to helping make federal agencies model workplaces.
The survey is also intended to measure employee perceptions of whether, and to what extent, conditions that characterize successful organizations are present in their agencies.
OPM said it expects agency managers to use the data, which will not be available for months, to make a sophisticated assessment of their own human capital management and develop action plans for improvement.
