# Presentation: 507542

## Revision of the 

- Factor Evaluation System

- Personnel Resources and Development Center
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management

## PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

**PURPOSE OF THE STUDY**

## THE BENEFITS

**THE BENEFITS**

## STRUCTURE OF THE FES

**                 ****Position**
**	****-Kind or nature of ****	****	****knowledge and skills ****	****needed.**
**How the knowledge and skills are used in doing the work.**
**Factor 2 - Supervisory Controls**
**How the work is assigned.**
**Employee's responsibility for carrying out the work.**
**How the work is reviewed.**
**Factor 3 - Guidelines**
**Nature of guidelines for performing the work.**
**Judgment needed to apply the guidelines or develop new guidelines.**
**Factor 4 - Complexity**
**Nature of the assignment.**
**Difficulty in identifying what needs to be done.**
**Difficulty and originality involved in performing the work.**

**Factor 5 - Scope and Effect**
**Purpose of the work.**
**Impact of the work product or service.**
**Factor 6 - Personal Contacts**
**People and conditions/settings under which contacts are made.**
**Factor 7 - Purpose of Contacts**
**Reasons for contacts in Factor 6.**
**Factor 8 - Physical Demands**
**Nature, frequency, and intensity of physical activity.**
**Factor 9 - Work Environment**
**	****-Risks and discomforts caused by ****	****physical surroundings and the ****	****	****safety precautions necessary to ****	****avoid accidents or discomforts.**

**STRUCTURE OF THE FES**

## THE APPROACH

**Develop a database of federal position descriptions **
**using the FES structure to identify common factor **
**patterns.**
**--> Identify representative sample of professional/administrative,**
**      ****technical, and clerical occupations**
**	****a.  Use CPDF data to identify high frequency jobs**
**	****b.  Use BLS data to identify benchmark occupations**
**--> Select appropriate grade levels to test**
**--> Gather governmentwide sample of position descriptions**
**--> Create database from factor level points**
**--> Conduct a factor analysis to identify factor relationships**

## Target List of Federal Occupations Under FES Structure

**0083  Police**
**0085  Security Guard**
**0099  Veterinary Medical Officer**
**0105  Social Security Administration**
**0203  Personnel Clerical Assistance**
**0260  Equal Employment Opportunity**
**0270  Federal Retirement Benefits**
**0303  Administrative Assistant**
**0305  Mail and File Clerk**
**0318  Secretary**
**0326  Office Automation Clerk**
**0332  Computer Operator**
**0334  Computer Specialist**
**0335  Computer Clerk and Assistant**
**0343  Management/Program Analyst**
**0344  Management Clerical Assistant**
**0345  Program Analyst**
**0360  Equal Opportunity Compliance**
**0391  Telecommunications**
**0404  Laboratory Technician**
**0501  Management Control Analyst**
**0510  Accounting**
**0511  Auditing**
**0512  Internal Revenue Agent**
**0525  Accounting Technician**
**0530  Cash Clerk**
**0540  Voucher Examining**
**0544  Civilian Pay**

**0560  Budget Analysis**
**0561  Budget Clerical and Assistance**
**0592  Tax Examining**
**0603  Physician Assistant**
**0610  Nurse**
**0621  Nursing Assistant**
**0630  Dietician and Nutritionist**
**0644  Medical Technologist**
**0682  Dental Hygiene**
**0701  Veterinary Medical Science**
**0808  Architecture**
**0819  Environmental Engineering**
**0830  Mechanical Engineering**
**0840  Nuclear Engineering**
**0950  Paralegal Specialist**
**0993  Claims Examiner**
**1035  Public Affairs Specialist**
**1060  Photography**
**1071  Audiovisual Production**
**1102  Contracting**
**1106  Procurement Assistant**
**1152  Production Control**
**1170  Realty**
**1171  Appraising**
**1320  Chemistry**
**1896  Border Patrol Agent**
**1910  Quality Assurance**
** ****2005 Supply Clerical and Technician**

**Target List of Federal Occupations Under FES Structure**

## FES FACTOR POINTS DATABASE

- 	**3****	****	****    32****	**
**	****4****	****	****    74****	**
**	****5****	****	****  161****	**
**	****6****	****	****  171****	**
**	****7****	****	****  228****	**
**	****8****	****	****    68****	**
**	****9****	****	****  231****	**
**	****10****	****	****    13****	**
**	****11****	****	****  243****	**
**	****12****	****	****  165****	**
**	****13****	****	****  166****	**
**	****14****	****	****  109****	**
**	****15****	****	****      2****	**
**          ****TOTAL****	****	****1863****	**

**FES FACTOR POINTS DATABASE**

## PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS RESULTS

**Rotated Component Matrix**
** ****	****	****	****	****	****	****       ****Component****	**** ****	**** **
** ****	****	****	****	****	****	****        ****1****	****            2****	**** **
**Factor 1 - Knowledge Required by the Position   ****.903****	****    -5.708E-04****	**** **
**Factor 2 - Supervisory Controls****	****	****     ****.884****	****    -3.953E-02****	**** **
**Factor 3 - Guidelines****	****	****	****	****     ****.926****	****    -4.350E-02****	**** **
**Factor 4 - Complexity****	****	****	****	****     ****.921****	****    -4.335E-02****	**** **
**Factor 5 - Scope and Effect****	****	****	****     ****.912****	****    -2.537E-02****	**** **
**Factor 6 - Personal Contacts****	****	****	****     ****.660****      1.417E-02****	**** **
**Factor 7 - Purpose of Contacts****	****	****     ****.853****	****     6.728E-02****	**** **
**Factor 8 - Physical Demands****	****	****       -3.495E-02****	****       ****.896****	**** **
**Factor 9 - Work Environment****	****	****        1.737E-02****	****       ****.897****	**** **
**Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis.   **
**Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.**
**a  Rotation converged in 3 iterations.**

## Proposed Less-Than-Nine Factor Combinations

- Knowledge

- Complexity

- Guidelines

- Scope and Effect

- Purpose of Contacts

- Supervisory Controls

- Personal Contacts

- Work Environment

- Physical Demands

- Cognitive

- Social

- Environment

## NEXT STEPS

-  **Conduct a pilot test of the revised FES factors to **
** ****compare against standard FES structure for **
** ****accuracy and reliability in grade classification**.
**--> Revise FES guidelines based on new factor   **
**     ****combinations.**
**--> Select target occupations and grade levels.**
**--> Recruit experienced classifiers.**
**--> Conduct panels to test the effectiveness of the  **
**     ****less-than-nine factors.**