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NASA Voted #1 For Job Satisfaction in Federal Government

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 21, 2012
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2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey: Agency Rankings, OPM
“The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FedView survey) is a tool that measures employees’ perceptions of whether, and to what extent, conditions characterizing successful organizations are present in their agencies. Survey results provide valuable insight into the challenges agency leaders face in ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce and how well they are responding.”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration – Rank: 1 Score: 74

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9 responses to “NASA Voted #1 For Job Satisfaction in Federal Government”

  1. Saturn1300 says:
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    Looks like I was wrong.NASA workers do not need to build launchers and space craft to make them happy.Not doing the Orion ’14 mission must have made them ecstatic. 

    • Helen Simpson says:
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      Er, since when have NASA workers built launchers and spacecraft? That hasn’t happened for a VERY long time. What NASA human space flight folks do is spec launchers, spacecraft, and the operations plans for them. The contractor does detailed design, builds them, and may even do the operations. On the human space flight side of the house, which is the side that I presume you’re assuming must be unhappy, it’s pretty much engineers advancing technology and coming up with design concepts. That activity can be highly successful and rewarding without ever pulling any g’s or spitting flames.

      Not doing the Orion ’14 mission didn’t make them ecstatic, but they hunkered down and excitedly started making plans for the Orion ’17 mission.

      • Andrew Gasser says:
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        Didn’t SLS-1 Slip to 2018?

      • Saturn1300 says:
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         The company will oversee the flight in partnership with NASA, which will receive post-flight data.I recently read that NASA would do like they normally do and check.I hope better than they did on HST.I was thinking of my theory of NASA doing the work for the price of materials.The most efficient use of tax payer money.The Lefts theory.You describe the Rights theory of Corporate Welfare.My opinion only.Just looking at the way NASA is doing,it sure looks that way.

    • dogstar29 says:
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      Apparently the survey only applies to civil service. Why shouldn’t they be happy? They’ve all still jobs, or at least paychecks. It’s the contractors who were laid off when Shuttle was shut down, and they’re not around to take the survey.  I am not aware of any civil service personnel who do actual vehicle design work, and only a handful who put their hands on the shuttle.

  2. sunman42 says:
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    Well, most of the folks at KSC who would have been disappointed by not doing Orion are, sadly, gone. And then there is that large contingent of finance/resource/legal/administrative folks who are making their judgments based on work that’s not very project-related. And, of course, all the folks at all the Centers who don’t work on manned spaceflight. Maybe the current budget actually allows them enough interesting work to keep them challenged and excited. And then there’s JWST….

  3. Littrow says:
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    Have I read these scores correctly? NASA’s score is just a hair above other organizations. But none of these scores are very good. A score in the low-mid 70s would be barely passing on a test. 

  4. Wiki Naayar says:
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     What I heard from my friends who work  in bay area  is that it is good place to work since it was built by good managers  but bad place to stay because of current irresponsible managers ( many loose cannons and some vagabonds). 

  5. H-man says:
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    Cmon this is some sort of spoof right?

    I know and talk to countless NASA employees who feel the agency is being
    rediculously managed by an EEO hire who just wants to hug everyone….
    Of course, he is being guided by a President who could care less about
    anything that does not help his core constituency….poor African Americans.

    The field Centers except for Marshall (who are happy because Shelby has
    stolen most of the agency budget for a rocket with no mission) are
    completely floundering under management so incompetent that directors are being fired left and right ( I guess they are the only ones who dont get hugs
    from Charlie…….lol).

    I talk to lots of NASA folks all the time and while they fill in a survey one
    way….what they say seems to be completely different.