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###### Office of Personnel Management

# AGENCY:

Office of Personnel Management.

# ACTION:

30-Day notice and request for comments.

# SUMMARY:

                        The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a currently approved collection, Leadership Assessment Surveys. OPM is requesting approval of the OPM Leadership 360TM, Leadership Potential Assessment, the OPM Personality Assessment for Leaders, the Leadership for Engagement Survey, the Leadership for Inclusion Survey, and the DEIA Pulse Survey as a part of this collection. Approval of these surveys is necessary to collect information on Federal agency performance and leadership effectiveness.                    

# DATES:

Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until February 3, 2025. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).

# ADDRESSES:

                        Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of Personnel Management or sent via electronic mail to                         *oira_submission@omb.eop.gov*                         or faxed to (202) 395-6974.                    

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        A copy of this ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by contacting Human Resources Strategy and Evaluation Solutions, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, Rm. 2469, NW, Washington, DC 20415, Attention: Coty Hoover, C/O Henry Thibodeaux, via phone at 202-606-8001, or via email to                         *Organizational_Assessment@opm.gov.*

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2), OPM is soliciting comments for this collection. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly interested in comments that:

1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and

                    4. Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology,                     *e.g.,*                     permitting electronic submissions of responses.                

## Background

OPM's Human Resources Strategy and Evaluation Solutions performs assessment and related consultation activities for Federal agencies on a reimbursable basis. The assessments are authorized by various statutes and regulations: section 4702 of title 5, U.S.C.; E.O. 12862; E.O. 13715; section 1128 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, Public Law 108-136; 5 U.S.C. 1101 note, 1103(a)(5), 1104, 1302, 3301, 3302, 4702, 7701 note; E.O. 13197, 66 FR 7853, 3 CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 748; E.O. 10577, 12 FR 1259, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218; and section 4703 of title 5, United States Code.

                    This collection request includes surveys we currently use and plan to use during the next three years to measure Federal leaders' effectiveness. These surveys all measure leadership characteristics. Non-Federal respondents will almost never receive more than one of these surveys. All these surveys consist of Likert-type, mark-one, and mark-all-that-apply items, and may include a small number of open-ended comment items. OPM's Leadership 360TM                     assessment measures the 28 competencies that comprise the five Executive Core Qualifications and Fundamental Competencies in the OPM leadership model. The OPM Leadership 360TM                     consists of 116 items and is almost never customized, although customization to meet an agency's needs is possible. OPM's Leadership Potential Assessment consists of 103 items focused on identifying individuals ready to move into supervisory positions. OPM's Personality Assessment for Leaders consists of 236 items that measure leadership personality characteristics within a “Big 5” framework. OPM's Leadership for Engagement and Leadership for Inclusion surveys consist of 140 items that measure 30 leadership behaviors and employees' perceptions of their work unit related to engagement and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), respectively. The DEIA Pulse Survey consists of 50 items that provide leaders with information related to the demographics of their workforce, perceptions of the leader's policies, procedures, and practices related to DEIA, and attitudes toward working in the leader's organization. These assessments are almost always administered electronically.                

Three new surveys are being added to this collection: The Leadership for Inclusion Survey (L4I), the Leadership for Engagement Survey (L4E), and the DEIA Pulse Survey. For the remaining three surveys the following minor updates, which did not impact the burden estimate, have been made:

                    The OPM Leadership 360TM                     survey content was reviewed and some changes were made, including refreshing some items to update the language and/or better reflect current terminology, revamping the response scale in an effort to increase response variance, and changing some item language to make it more gender neutral (                    *e.g.,*                     updated language such as “he or she” to “they”).                

                    For the Leadership Potential Assessment, some item language was changed to make it more gender neutral (                    *e.g.,*                     updated language such as “he or she” to “they”).                

Minor changes were also made to the instructions of the Leadership Profiler to match our new survey platform.

## Analysis

*Agency:*                     Office of Personnel Management.                

*Title:*                     Leadership Assessment Surveys.                

*OMB Number:*                     3206-0253.                

*Frequency:*                     On occasion.                

*Affected Public:*                     Individuals                

*Number of Respondents:*                     Approximately 8300 annually, 24,900 over 3 years.                

*Estimated Time per Respondent:*                     15 minutes for the OPM Leadership 360TM                     and Leadership Potential Assessment; 45 minutes for the OPM Personality Assessment for Leaders; 20 minutes for the Leadership for Engagement Survey and the Leadership for Inclusion Survey; and 10 minutes for the DEIA Pulse Survey. The OPM Personality Assessment for Leaders will almost never be administered to non-Federal employees; excluding it, the average time to complete these surveys is approximately 16 minutes.                

*Total Burden Hours:*                     2,088 hours annually, 6,264 over 3 years.                

Alexys Stanley,

Federal Register Liaison.

[FR Doc. 2024-31520 Filed 12-31-24; 8:45 am]

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