Senior Executive Service Views of Former Federal Executives (A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States)

摘要

Former executives who left the SES between January 1983 and July 1988 were asked for their views on the operation of the SES and for their reasons for leaving. Their responses reveal that substantial majorities of the respondents feel positively about the Government's success in achieving some major statutory objectives governing the operation of the SES, but that substantial majorities also indicate dissatisfaction with SES pay and bonus programs. The former executives' most frequently cited reason for leaving was inadequate executive compensation. However, job dissatisfaction also played an important role in their decisions to leave the Service. The report concludes with suggestions for agency actions aimed at alleviating nonmonetary causes of SES dissatisfaction.