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Harassment and Discrimination on the Basis of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the FEMA Workforce: 2021 Survey Follow-Up
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sims, Carra S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in employment--United States--21st century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Race discrimination--United States--21st century.
- Race discrimination.
- Sexual harassment--United States--21st century.
- Sexual harassment.
- Sex discrimination in employment--United States--21st century.
- Sex discrimination in employment.
- United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency--Administration.
- United States.
- Other Title:
- Harassment and Discrimination on the Basis of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the FEMA Workforce
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2022
- Summary:
- In 2019, researchers from the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) fielded a survey to estimate the annual prevalence of workplace harassment and discrimination at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and assess employee perceptions of leadership and workplace climate. The survey results revealed areas in need of improvement and helped guide FEMA leadership decisions about programming and policy responses. With the results in hand, FEMA published its "Culture Improvement Action Plan," laying out objectives, programs, and actions intended to create a safe workplace for all employees. To understand whether this objective had been achieved, FEMA asked HSOAC researchers to repeat the workforce survey two years after the first survey had been administered. The survey was repeated in the spring of 2021, with results indicating a substantial reduction from 2019 of harassment and discrimination in the workplace, albeit still a high prevalence. This report presents the survey results and a discussion about how changes in the workplace during the response period might have influenced the findings. An annex to this report contains detailed tabular data of survey results and the complete survey instrument. The survey was designed to provide an independent and objective assessment of the prevalence and characteristics of harassment and discrimination at FEMA, whether or not victims chose to elevate incidents to FEMA leadership, and employee perspectives on workplace climate.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Survey Design and Analytic Approach
- Chapter Three: Overall Prevalence of Gender-Based/Sexual and Racial/Ethnic Civil Rights Violations and Additional Analyses
- Chapter Four: Prevalence of Gender-Based/Sexual Civil Rights Violations in the Year Preceding the Survey
- Chapter Five: Characteristics of Gender-Based/Sexual Civil Rights Violations
- Chapter Six: Prevalence of Racial/Ethnic Civil Rights Violations
- Chapter Seven: Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic Civil Rights Violations
- Chapter Eight: Reporting Decisions, Perceived Organizational Response to Reports, and Barriers to Reporting
- Chapter Nine: The FEMA Climate
- Chapter Ten: Conclusions and Recommendations.
- Notes:
- Description based on electronic resource
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