Despite the proliferation of published work using the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) data, the scholarly community to date lacks a review of the practices and value associated with how scholars have used the survey data in their research." This assertion implies that although numerous researchers have incorporated the data from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) into their investigations, a thorough examination or assessment of the approaches and advantages associated with the use of such data in scholarly research is lacking- how to respond to this