Fri, Sep 03, 2010
FAA, TSA, Not So Much
NASA has been ranked fifth in the Partnership for Public Service
2010 ratings for the "Best Places to Work in the Federal
Government."
The 2010 survey is the fifth conducted by the partnership since
2003. NASA has been rated in the top five in the federal government
in four of the surveys and sixth in the other. An award was
accepted by Associate Deputy Administrator Charles Scales on behalf
of the agency at a special briefing held by the partnership on
Wednesday, September 1st.
The partnership is a nonprofit organization that works to
revitalize and transform the federal government by inspiring a new
generation to serve. The "Best Places" program is one of many the
Partnership sponsors to encourage government service. The data used
to develop these rankings were based on the Office of Personnel
Management's Employee Viewpoint Survey. Approximately 260,000
employees at 290 departments, agencies and sub-components were
surveyed.
NASA's workforce continues to score well on the survey among the
32 large federal agencies. The best places to work index is based
on employee responses to questions about whether they are satisfied
with their jobs and organization. A key factor is also whether
employees would recommend their organization to others as a good
place to work.
In addition to this overall index, agencies and sub-components
also were scored in workplace environment categories such as
effective leadership, employee skills/mission match and work/life
balance. NASA was among the leaders in several categories,
including effective leadership, support for diversity, teamwork,
training and performance based rewards. The others in the top five
are (in order): the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Government
Accountability Office, the FDIC, and the Smithsonian
Institution.
The FAA ranked 187th on the "Agency Subcomponant" list. TSA was
fifth from the bottom of that list at 220th.
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