NOAA’s organizational assessment will provide a detailed analysis and description of NOAA’s organizational culture, feedback to the organization on the results of the assessment and action plans to address issues, concerns, strategies, policies and procedures identified in the assessment.  The organizational assessment is critical to ascertaining the business case for diversity; the gap between the present and future state in NOAA and how it can be bridged; perceptions of the quality of worklife; and a determination of whether NOAA’s systems, policies and practices support the NOAA vision for the organization.  This process is consistent with the NOAA Diversity Plan objectives.

The assessment consists of two phases.  Phase one is called Survey Feedback Action (SFA), which is a data collection activity involving an all employee survey, data feedback, and action planning from the survey results.  Phase two of the organizational assessment involves a review of NOAA’s systems, policies, practices and grievance and complaint data, interviews with key officials and employee focus groups.  Data from phase one (SFA) will be integrated with information obtained during phase two into a detailed report of NOAA’s culture and the steps that are necessary to move to the desired state.

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