Letter to the Chairman of the Committee
from Sir Peter Ricketts KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office
2009 FCO STAFF SURVEY
RESULTS
I wrote to you ahead of the oral evidence session
in December 2009 giving you the headlines from the recent all
staff survey, in which all major government departments participated.
I am now writing to give you the detailed results: a copy of the
main report is attached.[16]
The survey results are largely very positive. As
you will see, the FCO performs well compared to the average scores
across the Civil Service, particularly in areas such as leadership
and change management. Our overall results put us at the top of
the table of the large departments (those with over 10,000 staff).
The news is not all good. We have not, for example,
yet significantly reduced the reported incidence of bullying and
harassment among our staff. We will do more work to analyse the
results here and elsewhere, and to tackle the issues identified
in the survey.
We have made the results available to all our
staff; and will also be publishing them on the FCO website.
3 February 2010
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