Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983

This survey was undertaken to obtain information on the attitudes and perceptions of federal employees on a broad range of topics related to their jobs, government personnel programs, and legislation. Questions covered employees' attitudes towards job satisfaction, satisfaction with their organizations, awareness of a new performance appraisal system and opinions on its effectiveness and fairness, the link between performance and reward, merit pay, pay and benefit comparability with the private sector, civil service retirement, health benefits, and relations between career and noncareer executives.