2016 Federal Employee Orientation Programs Best Practices Research Project
Using previous 2015 research from the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Orientation Division combined with results from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Training and Development Listserve respondents as well as direct contact responses to this survey; FSI Virtual Fellow Dr. Diane Blankenship, Frostburg State University (DBlankenship@Frostburg.edu) and Gaia Hart, FSI Civil Service Orientation Coordinator (HartGZ@State.gov) conducted a survey across 30 Federal agencies of all sizes to capture best practices and actual practices in Federal employee orientation programs, their curriculum content, and evaluation methodologies.