bestplacestowork.org<\/a><\/strong>, you can find detailed data showing where agencies stand and resources that can help turn the Best Places to Work rankings into a plan for change. As you dive into the data, it\u2019s worth noting that our 2018 government-wide employee engagement score and our trend line from 2017 to 2018 differ from the Office of Personnel Management\u2019s 2018 engagement index and two-year comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis year marks the first time since we launched the Best Places to Work rankings in 2003 that the Department of Veterans Affairs did not participate in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey on which our rankings are based, and instead administered its own internal survey. Since the VA\u2019s internal survey included the three questions used to calculate the Best Places to Work government-wide employee engagement score, the department is included in our 2018 rankings for large agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, just like other agencies that conduct their own surveys and meet our criteria, we did not include the VA\u2019s data in the calculation of our 2018 government-wide employee engagement score. This is the same decision made by OPM in calculating its index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our paths differ, however, in the way we handled the 2017 government-wide comparison data. To ensure that we would have an apples to apples comparison between 2018 and 2017, we removed the VA data from our original 2017 government-wide employee engagement score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, this year\u2019s government-wide Best Places to Work employee engagement score of 62.2 represents a 0.6-point decline from the modified 2017 government-wide score that no longer includes the VA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When OPM released its 2018 engagement index, it decided to take a different approach. While the VA was not included in OPM\u2019s employee index score for this year, it chose to keep the department\u2019s data in its 2017 scoring rather than modify it as we did. This led to an increase in OPM\u2019s 2018 government-wide engagement index score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the day, our government\u2019s most important asset is its people. This year\u2019s Best Places to Work findings demonstrate that collectively we have a lot of work remaining to support and strengthen the federal workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This must be a collaborative effort that advances government overall. We at the Partnership for Public Service look forward to working with the White House, the new Congress and federal leaders across government to help foster and facilitate those conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On December 12, the Partnership for Public Service honored the top-rated and most improved organizations in our 2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings. The awards celebration is one of my favorite events because it recognizes high-performing federal agencies and the leaders who create positive work environments. Our goal in producing the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sort-date":"","content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7589],"tags":[9075,9048,9066,9076],"class_list":["post-8149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-engagement","tag-best-places-to-work","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-rankings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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