RANKING HIGH: USAASC RANKS TOP 5 BEST PLACES TO WORK
MORE OF UPS Secretary of the Army Hon. Christine Wormuth presented Col. Barry Williams, deputy director, USAASC and Lt. Gen. Robert M. Collins, military deputy ASA(ALT) and director of the Army Acquisition Corps—and leaders from the other top five Army organizations—with a banner for this achievement at the Army Civilian Showcase portion of the 2024 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition on Oct. 16, 2024, in Washington. Te theme for this year’s Showcase was “Army Civilian Innovations and Changes that Keep Army Top 10 Best Places to Work,” where a panel of military and civil- ian leaders shared their expertise, insights and experiences with military personnel and fellow civilians, as well as industry and future talent.
“Tere is a sense of family,” Williams said of USAASC, after receiving the banner. “It was probably one of the only places that I’ve worked, for sure one of the few, with the amalgamation of great leadership and a great family atmosphere.” Every organization has its ups and downs, but he said in his experience at the support center there are more ups than downs. “It’s about teamwork and working together, and that’s why I’m honored to accept the award. We just have to keep it up and maintain it.”
MAKING THE CUT In addition to USAASC, organizations ranking in the top five were Space and Missile Defense Command, U.S. Army North and 5th Army, Army Test and Evaluation Command and Head- quarters Department of the Army Field Operating Agencies and Staff Support Agencies.
AUSA Army Civilian Advisory Committee Chairman Bill Moore, who moderated the event, said making the list of best places to work in the federal government is a tribute to the senior leadership in the Army. “Leaders do three things: get missions done, prepare organizations for the future and most importantly, take care of their people,” he said. “And this is reflected in how the Army scored.”
Results were based on index scores from the Office of Person- nel Management (OPM)’s annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) and calculated by the Partnership for Public Service and the Boston Consulting Group. Te FEVS was designed to assess how employees jointly experience the poli- cies, practices and procedures characteristic of their agency and its leadership, then provide those results and indices across the federal government by agency size and by agency, through its OPM FEVS dashboard.
Te results offer insights into whether (and to what extent) work- place conditions characterizing successful organizations are present in federal agencies and provide information important to successful organizational change and development initiatives. USAASC’s overall index score has consistently increased over the last few years, making the organization one of the most desirable workplaces within the Department of the Army.
“If you give people the ability to do their job well, and give them the environment to do it, they are happier and more effective,” said Frank Gonzalez, director and equal employment oppor- tunity chief at USAASC’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Office. “Great leaders are people focused, and people make the organization. Te secret sauce for making the top five is simple: Take care of your people. Make them happy and they stick around a while. Tey’re happy and it makes recruiting easy.”
MAKING THE LIST-BADGE
2023 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government banner. (Graphic courtesy of USAASC)
Gonzalez explained that USAASC’s top five result was obtained by looking at the larger federal ranking system and breaking that down into sub agencies—large, medium, small and subcom- ponents—and their individual rankings. Te Army, as a large organization, has made the Top 10 Best Places to Work, and
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