Washington, D.C. – Of all the places in the U.S. government to work, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission might be the worst, data collected from its employees in a federal survey concerning workplace satisfaction shows.
Recent press accounts have suggested workforce job satisfaction within the agency responsible for enforcing U.S. antitrust regulations has declined considerably since Lina Kahn, President Joe Biden's choice to lead the FTC assumed her post.
The non-profit Phoenix Center for Legal and Advanced Public Policy Research decided to crunch the numbers to find out if that was true. What it found was troubling. The people working at the FTC believe, a study the group issued concludes, that absent changes in senior leadership, staff satisfaction, morale and effectiveness will continue to lag.
“The survey results are disturbing with few bright spots,” Dr. George Ford, the Phoenix Center's chief economist and author of Employee Dissatisfaction at the Federal Trade Commission: An Empirical Analysis of Size and Source said. “An agency with the size and importance of the FTC demands seasoned leadership, which it does not now have.”
Ford's conclusions are primarily based on a thorough examination of data collected by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in its annual Federal Employee Viewpoint survey as well as information collected by the Partnership for Public Service and the Boston Consulting Group, organizations that routinely conduct surveys of federal workers.
This decline in morale is real, the data showed, attributable to what critics have called Kahn's mismanagement and politicization of an agency once highly regarded in legal, regulatory and corporate circles.
Using the summary level satisfaction measures from the Best Places Survey to Work, Dr. Ford found that the FTC fell from its position as the federal agency that ranked highest in 2020 down to the bottom quartile of agencies in 2021. That was the largest decline of any agency that year. Moreover, few agencies experienced a decline as dramatic as that at any time in the last twelve years. Lack of confidence in senior leadership, the group said, was the principal reason why.
“The more detailed results from the FEV survey reveal the largest decline in satisfaction by FTC staff reflects a perceived lack of honesty and integrity among the agency's senior leadership,” leading to a lack of respect for them. “Small increases in satisfaction are observed for agency supervisors, suggesting supervisors are trying to shield FTC staff from the mismanagement by senior leadership,” the group said in a release.
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Is anyone who Biden put in government office really qualified for any job. All I see screw up after screw up with these lazy uneducated useless unamerican people.. Joe is not qualified, Harris is not qualified the whole administration is not qualified. America is the loser in this unamerican mess the democrats have created.
Lisa Khan checks off all of the boxes. She is a foreign born, woman of color……and those are ALL of the qualifications, the biden administration requires.
It is the practice of leftists to nominate people who fill certain demographic categories rather than those who demonstrate proven skills and qualifications. Lina Kahn is only 33 years old, and appears to be middle eastern–satisfying at least a couple of demographic categories, but has very little practical job or leadership experience that would have prepared her for the position of agency head.
One point in her favor is that she opposed the Google monopoly. She should have continued that effort rather than taking on a role for which she is unprepared.
How about other agencies: USPS EPA NAID HHS HUD, TSA DoT, Energy, NASA,
BLS, Labor, AmTRak, FAA FDA etc??
An accurate reflection, I think, of Biden and his entire administration. I’d like to see such research conducted for the Dept. of Justice (alleged) under Garland.
A lack of belief in the honesty of the upper echelon. I’m shocked; shocked, I tell you.
I can sympathize with them. Idiots for bosses hired by idiots or true psychos are impossible to please or get along with. Another Biden move to drive out the best caring personnel in our government.
Kahn simply has no administrative experience as she is first and foremost an academic. Appointing persons with little or no record of administrative success in deference to ideology is a common partisan malpractice – this has two primary results. First, it neglects necessary understanding of organizational dynamics and two, it allows entrenched bureaucrats to preserve the status quo irrespective of historical performance. Another perverse result are padded resumes that wrongly imply capabilities and advance individuals to positions of increasing complexity and responsibility. This is a course to mediocrity and decline.