WASHINGTON–The “employee engagement scores” of the National Credit Union Administration, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp all decreased in the most recent numbers when compared with 2017, with the BCFP seeing the biggest decline.
The findings were released as part of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government report for 2018, which is published by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service.
According to the report, the BCFP engagement score for 2018 was 51.7, down 25.2 points from its 2017 score. The NCUA earned a 67.2 score, down 1.8 points from 2017, while the FDIC 2018 score was 80.5, down 1.4 points from the previous year.
According to the Partnership for Public Service, the BCFP score was the largest decline in the mid-sized agencies and the second-lowest score among all, trailing only the Federal Labor Relations Board (FLRB), which saw a decline of 31 points.
Federal agencies in which the employee engagement score rose include the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), up 1.3 points to 77, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which ranked first with an 84 score (up 2.6 points from 2017).
Where FDIC Did Score Well
The FDIC did score highly in several subcategories, including: pay, at 79.1 (ranked first); employee skills/mission match, at 82.8 (fifth), and strategic management, at 69.8 (fourth), the PPS reported.
According to the PPS, its rankings are calculated using a proprietary weighted formula that incudes responses to three questions from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, conducted by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to PPS. The three questions are:
Overall, the PPS said that employee engagement dropped at more than half (59.1%) of the federal organizations included in the rankings.