More Surveys Coming

OPM has issued final rules carrying out a 2004 law requiring agencies to conduct an annual survey of employees. The rules in the August 24 Federal Register describe how the surveys can be done and specify certain questions that must be asked, in the areas of personal work experience, recruitment, development and retention, performance culture, leadership, and job satisfaction. Meanwhile, the TSP has awarded a contract to conduct a survey of its participants, to be finished by the end of this calendar year, part of what is planned as an ongoing project to identify participant concerns and trends.