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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND
COMPENSATION DIVISION
B-205566
MARCH 11, 1982
The Honorable Herbert E. Ellingwood
Chairman, Merit Systems Protection
Board
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Subject: Questionnaire Design Problems Limit
Usefulness of Results (FPCD-82-9)
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gave the Merit
Systems Protection Board a broad mandate to
* * * conduct * * * special studies relating to
the civil service and to other merit systems in
the executive branch. (5 U.S.C. 1205(a)(3))
The Merit Systems Review and Studies (MSRS) group was estab-
lished by the Board to make these studies. Because of lim-
ited resources, MSRS chose to approach the studies' require-
ment through a series of questionnaires to Federal employees.
As part of our congressionally mandated activities, we
reviewed the design of two MSRS questionnaires: (1) What
is the State of the Merit System and What Has OPM's [Office
of Personnel Management's] Impact on the Merit System Been
During 1980? and (2) Do Federal Employees Face Reprisal
for Reporting Fraud, Waste, or Mismanagement? An MSRS re-
port based on the merit system questionnaire was released in
August 1981, and MSRS plans other uses of the data. MSRS
released a final report on the reprisal questionnaire in
October 1981.
(966036)
117784
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