to achieve a reasonable balance between Federal government executives still actively
employed (7 of the 11 interviewed) and those who had recently retired from Federal
government service (4 of the 11 interviewed).
Although not displayed in Table 4.1 in order to promote participant anonymity,
the 11 Federal government executives interviewed came from 10 different Federal
government agencies (only one Federal agency had 2 participants). The male: female
ratio of 9:2 is not representative of the Federal government workforce writ large, but is
fairly representative of the gender demographics for the Senior Executive Service (SES).
Six of the 11 interviewees were from the scientific community: the researcher elected not
to provide further details about where within the science community the interviewees
worked in order to promote continued participant anonymity.
Table 4. 1
4.1 Attribute Table of Study Participants
PseudonymParticipant ScorePEM Employment Status OccupationPrimary Gender^ Interview Location Interview Date
A2 2.98 Active Finance Male Office 11/16/2012
A3 3.02 Active Science Male Residence 10/30/2012
A4 3.27 Active Finance Female Office 11/16/2012
A5 2.95 Active Science Male Office 11/20/2012
A7 3.05 Active Science Male Office 10/31/2012
A8 3.76 Active Engineering Male Office 11/15/2012
A9 3.40 Active Science Male Office 11/1/2012
R1 3.25 Retired Science Female Residence 10/26/2012
R4 3.17 Retired (^) ResourcesHuman Male Conference Call 11/5/2012
R8 3.52 Retired Law Male Office 11/6/2012
R9 3.48 Retired Science Male Residence 11/2/2012
Note: PEM = Personal Excellence Map, described in Chapter 3