OPM Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Plan

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan

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OWR Goal 9: FY 1999/2000	An increasing number of agencies have workplace violence programs and policies in place so that agencies are better equipped to prevent or resolve violent situations.

		Gather information from Federal agencies to determine the extent and quality of Federal workplace violence programs/policies, and solicit samples from Federal agencies.
		Provide managers with Governmentwide guidance on strategies to deal with workplace violence through: presentations to agency planners on the guidance; workshops to provide necessary expertise to deal with workplace violence; and education of key professionals through dissemination of information and augmentation of the workplace violence home page.

		Increase in the number of agencies with a workplace violence prevention program or policy in effect. (Baseline data will be established in FY 1999).
		Improvement in the availability of policy information and program guidance as measured by increases in the number of hits on the violence in the workplace home page. The number of hits for FY 1998 was 11,276. In FY 1998, OWR developed and announced, in a White House ceremony, new guidance on designing programs and strategies for dealing with workplace violence. OWR also effectively notified Federal agencies of the availability of the guidance. This involved numerous presentations on the importance of establishing agency programs for the prevention and handling of violent incidents in the workplace. Since the web counter over 11,000 visitors to that site and GPO reports 9,365 booklets entitled, Dealing with Workplace Violence: A Guide for Agency Planners, have been ordered as of 10/1/98. In FY 1999, OWR will improve the resources available to agencies through the violence in the workplace website and will initiate efforts to provide additional educational materials to agency planners.
		In FY 1999, in response to the Vice President’s directive to address the growing problem of domestic violence, OWR will undertake several steps to help the human resources community deal with this issue. OWR staff has created a guidebook on domestic violence which provides agencies with information on resources available for employees who are victims of domestic violence as well as information on how to deal with issues that arise in the workplace due to incidents of domestic violence. In February 1999, OWR will host a Seminar on Domestic Violence, open to all Federal agencies, during which it will unveil its new guidebook. The information from the guidebook will also be available on OPM’s website by the third quarter of the fiscal year.
		Improvement in the level of satisfaction of HR Specialists with regard to instructional materials about violence in the workplace, as measured by a 2% increase over FY 1999 levels in the percentage of favorable ratings on the OPM customer survey. The level of satisfaction with regard to the timeliness and quality of information sharing on violence in the workplace was 75.4% for HR Specialists in 1998. The level of satisfaction with regard to the timeliness and quality of technical assistance on violence in the workplace was 69.9% for HR Specialists in 1998.

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