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Your Voice Matters!

The CIGIE Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee invites all employees in the Federal OIG community to participate in this survey.

This survey is your opportunity to provide valuable information to assist the Committee and the entire OIG community in understanding perspectives and viewpoints about diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and engagement.

Your input will help establish plans and initiatives to improve DEIA programs throughout the OIG community. Strong programs can improve morale, productivity, and the quality and value of work efforts and the work environment. 

Your responses are voluntary and anonymous. The estimated completion time for this survey is 15 minutes. The survey will close on May 3, 2024.

For questions about the survey, please contact the Data Collection, Assessment, and Reporting Working Group at ldavis@neh.gov. 

Survey Definitions

For the purpose of this survey, the following definitions are provided.

Diversity: A collection of individual attributes that together help agencies pursue organizational objectives efficiently and effectively. Examples of these attributes include characteristics, such as national origin, language, race, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and family structures. The concept also encompasses differences among people based on their backgrounds; where they are from, where they have lived, and differences of thought and life experiences. [Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Government-Wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2011]

Inclusion: A culture that connects each employee to the organization; encourages collaboration, flexibility, and fairness; and leverages diversity throughout the organization, so that all individuals are able to participate and contribute to their full potential. [OPM Government-Wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2011]

Equity: The consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality. [Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government]

Accessibility: The design, construction, development, and maintenance of facilities, information and communication technology, programs, and services so that all people, including people with disabilities, can fully and independently use them. Accessibility includes the provision of accommodations and modifications to ensure equal access to employment and participation in activities for people with disabilities, the reduction or elimination of physical and attitudinal barriers to equitable opportunities, a commitment to ensuring that people with disabilities can independently access every outward-facing and internal activity or electronic space, and the pursuit of best practices such as universal design. [Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce]

Engagement: An employee’s sense of purpose that is evident in their display of dedication, persistence and effort in their work or overall attachment to their organization and its mission. [OPM summary document, "Building an Engaging Workplace—Understanding and Using Engagement Drivers"]