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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

2015 Annual Employee Survey Results

Public Law requires Federal agencies to administer an Annual Employee Survey (AES) every year and post the results

for public access. NASA expands upon these requirements by extending the sample size and posting results on

additional survey questions included in the 2015 Employee Viewpoint Survey (EVS). Following are NASA’s 2015

results and analysis of AES and EVS items.

Interpretation and action on the results

NASA continuously uses survey results to gauge the attitudes and impressions of employees in key areas of their work

experience that drive satisfaction and commitment and ultimately boost morale, productivity and our capacity for

mission success. This year, 9,936 NASA employees (59.2% of the workforce) responded to this survey, providing a

high degree of confidence in the results for senior leaders and managers.

Overall, our Agency’s 2015 results are extremely positive, with improvements in 66 of the 71 survey questions and

small declines in positive ratings for only 4 items. An impressive 38 of the 66 survey items that showed improvement

increased by a significant margin (at least 1%), while only 1 of the 4 items that decreased went down by more than

1%. NASA’s 2015 survey scores represent an overall good news story for the Agency as it continues to further improve

upon prior years’ positive results. Furthermore, we have once again experienced decreases in only a small handful of

areas, allowing NASA leadership to be able to hone in on a small subset of EVS topics in their Agency-wide efforts

to continue improving employee morale, productivity and success.

We note that the 2015 Agency-wide results show progress in areas of focus for Agency leadership during 2014, such

as performance assessments and employee recognition, in addition to continuous improvements in providing an

innovative climate for employees and strengthening supervisor-employee relationships. The ongoing improvement

in results for these topic areas demonstrates that Agency-level attention to a small number of important issues produces

tangible results for employees.

Survey results below are presented as the percent of favorable responses on a five point scale (those responding with

‘strongly agree’ or ‘agree’ or their equivalent). A plus-or-minus 1 percentage point change is considered statistically

significant.

Climate for Innovation: NASA uses an innovation index created by OPM, which measures the extent to which an

individual employee feels encouraged and motivated to improve personal performance and deliver superior results. In

2014, NASA remained a top-performer in innovation among the Federal Government, and in 2015 once again

improved upon its previous score with all index items increasing, as can be seen directly below.

Annual Employee Survey Template