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The NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Norfolk Barrier Analysis Data Working Group was selected as the 2020 Department of the Navy (DON) Human Resources (HR) & Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Community Awards for Excellence in the Small Teams category.
The April 7 announcement highlighted the Data Working Group team specifically, comprised of Andrea Contratto, Doug Chaler and Lt. Cmdr. Sanjay Sharma, and recognizing them for their work providing outstanding data accumulation, analysis and charting in support of the overall NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Barrier Analysis (BA) Steering Committee.
The purpose of the NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Barrier Analysis Data Working Group is to determine whether there are any indications in the command’s historical employment data that reveals a need to improve some aspect of the human capital system, such as the hiring process, award distribution or retention.
“Being recognized at the department level is a pretty significant personal achievement,” said Contratto. “In addition to the recognition for myself and the team, this award reflects very positively on NAVSUP FLC Norfolk for supporting new ideas and embracing change.”
According to Business Support Department Director Dave Cass, this data working group was a recent addition to the Barrier Analysis team and their work has facilitated easier and data driven identification of potential issues and opportunities, helping the entire BA team’s efforts.
Contratto, who serves as the director of the workforce enrichment division, coordinated the effort and says her group analyzed data from 2015 to 2020, looking at the composition of our civilian workforce by multiple factors, for example gender, race/ethnicity and disability.
She said they worked with a total of 21 tables of information for each year examined. “It’s pretty significant. We combined five years of data onto one table then created a variety of charts to depict the data for ease of interpretation. There are two sets of tables: one set provides data on race/ethnicity and sex categorized by disability status; the other set of tables provides data on the full workforce also by race/ethnicity and sex.”
For example, Contratto explained, one data table broke our workforce down by temporary and permanent employees then by race/ethnicity and gender while another provided the overall workforce by the command’s unit identification codes and also by race/ethnicity and gender.
“After the team combined the five years of data onto one spreadsheet, charts or visuals were created that compared temporary vs permanent on race/ethnicity and by sex (male-female) for the five-year period,” she added. We continued with the overall numbers. Some charts compared the workforce across races/ethnicities; others compared males and females by a particular race or ethnicity.”
They were also able to analyze how awards are distributed; NAVSUP FLC Norfolk’s accession and separation patterns, disability status and other factors.
“These charts were presented to the Barrier Analysis Steering Committee that would decide what additional data they wanted to see or whether they wanted more detail on a particular dimension,” she explained.
At the request of the Steering Committee, the team used census tables showing the composition of the workforce in specific locations to give them a clearer picture of the overall data. FLC Norfolk’s demographics were also compared to NAVSUPs. All together, the information allows leadership to improve its understanding of the composition of a dynamic civilian workforce.
She added that BA Steering Committee will be meeting again in May to review some final charts and revisit previous ones and that the job of the Barrier Analysis Working Group will continue, with 2021 data just around the corner.
“I am extremely proud of the Barrier Analysis Data Working Group for what they have accomplished and for winning this award,” said NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Commanding Officer Capt. Julie Treanor. “The data, visuals and analyses they produce greatly improve our understanding of the composition and dynamics of our civilian workforce, allow us to assess the effectivity of our diversity management efforts, and most importantly, they provide opportunity to hold ourselves accountable.”
| Date Taken: | 04.07.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 04.22.2021 15:28 |
| Story ID: | 394501 |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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