Best Places to Work Agency Resources

The Workplace Analysis Report and Hay Group Excel Tool displays your agency’s data for the survey questions and workplace categories included in the Best Places to Work rankings.

Specifically, the Excel Tool includes the following types of reports for your agency:

• Agency data for the Best Places to Work Index, as well as 10 workplace categories
• Agency data for individual survey questions (e.g., percentage of employees providing a favorable, neutral, and unfavorable response)
• A comparison of agency data to the previous year (trend)
• A comparison of agency data to the federal government-wide results
• A comparison of agency data to the private sector
• A breakdown of survey data by key demographic categories (age, racial/ethnic background)

The Best Places to Work Excel Tool was developed by Hay Group.

Request a customized analysis report based on your agency’s specific needs and interests and use the data to develop your strategy.

Use your Best Places to Work data to improve your agency's workplace environment in a way that also improves organizational effectiveness.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of what your data mean to better focus and set priorities during action planning;
• Enhance two-way communication across all levels of your organization to engage key stakeholders in improving employee satisfaction;
• Use your data to develop a viable plan of action and maintain stakeholder engagement to ensure long-term support and resources for the effort;
• Incorporate the commitment to improve the workplace environment into the agency’s culture and broader mission and sustain progress over time; and
• Document lessons learned and start planning for future action.

Staff/Manager Alignment Score

High employee satisfaction is critical to improving agency performance, but even the most well-intentioned efforts to improve the workplace environment could be at risk if managers and staff don't see eye-to-eye on the key issues.

The Best Places to Work Staff/Manager Alignment Score helps you determine whether your efforts to improve agency performance are at risk, and where to focus efforts to reduce this risk. The score capitalizes on a unique advantage of the federal government over the private sector: readily available benchmarks for comparison across the federal government. Better still, the analysis uses public data hiding in plain sight to supplement agency action planning.

To help you make the most of this critical information, the Partnership, with support from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, has developed the Best Places to Work Agency Guide for Staff/Manager Alignment Scores. The guide includes:

• Step-by-step instructions on using the score to guide improvement
• Strategies for agency heads, senior executives, supervisors and union representatives to maintain employee morale and improve communication and transparency

The Federal Leadership Challenge
Leadership is the most important factor when it comes to driving employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government. But how do federal employees view their leadership and where are the most significant opportunities for improvement?

According to the Partnership's latest Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis, leadership in the federal government gets a mixed review. On the one hand, leadership is one of the lowest workplace categories of 10 examined, with a score of only 54.9 out of 100. On the other hand, scores have been improving steadily since the rankings first launched in 2003 and there is compelling evidence that a concerted effort can make a real difference to employees.

"The Federal Leadership Challenge" is a Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® Snapshot, made possible by the generous support of Deloitte and Hay Group.

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Gender Gaps and Racial/Ethnic Divides
Based on data from the Office of Personal Management's 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, this analysis provides important perspective on how federal employees perceive the current state of diversity and inclusion within their agencies.

For federal leaders working to implement President Obama's recent executive order, this is key information that directs agencies to identify and implement a series of strategies to "remove barriers to equal opportunity in the federal government's recruitment, hiring, promotion, retention, professional development, and training."

"Gender Gaps and Racial/Ethnic Divides" is a Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® Snapshot, made possible by the generous support of Deloitte and Hay Group.

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What Drives Innovation in Government
The Partnership and Hay Group found a strong disconnect between the desire of federal employees to innovate and the degree to which innovation is encouraged in their workplaces. Six workplace conditions have a high effect on innovation and federal leaders can improve innovation within their agencies by creating an environment in which each of these conditions thrives.

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Large Agency Innovation Rankings
Small Agency Innovation Rankings
Agency Subcomponent Innovation Rankings

Telework Choice Enhances Employee Satisfaction
The Partnership and Deloitte set out to understand the relationship between telework, job satisfaction and commitment.

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Workplace Differences Among Men and Women
The Partnership and Deloitte found that women are slightly less satisfied than men in nine out of 10 workplace categories, and slightly more satisfied in only one category (skills/mission match). Today, women are half the labor market and fill a growing number of management and professional jobs. Managing the workforce of tomorrow will require leaders to tap the potential of all employees, men and women.

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