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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 1 (Thursday, January 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31520]

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

Submission for Review 3206-0253: Leadership Assessment Surveys

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments.

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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 
[email protected] 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 
[email protected].

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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