performance management

An agreement with the CPSU and APSC has been struck enabling all APS to ask for flexible work as a right — soon.

APS bargaining is getting to the pointy end. The public service union has moved to head off labelling working from home as a perk.

A four-day work week that chalks up 37.5 hours between 7am and 7pm for public servants is the latest proposal being thrashed out.

There’s a commitment to embed flexible work in the next APS Enterprise Agreement. Now the key definitions and rules from bosses have dropped.

Giving the boss bad news was career-limiting under robodebt. That culture ends now, vows top bureaucrat Gordon de Brouwer.

Good recruitment is fine but government departments and agencies have to focus on retaining their high-performing talent, too.

Remote working in lockdown presents new leadership challenges every day. While some are the recurring challenges of leadership simply playing out a new environment, others are new. These challenges arise from the uncertainties and contradictions that are associated with remote working. As we move in and out of lockdown, it’s likely that the hybrid workplace […]

The public service comprises people passionate about serving their nation and community. Yet consistently turning passion into high performance for a collective purpose is a unique organisational challenge, one that requires disciplined management techniques. COVID-19 and other recent emergencies represent a powerfully instructive example of how to address this challenge. The Australian Public Service (APS) […]

The head of the South Australian Public Service has called for his department to build an inclusive workplace culture that nurtures talent and improves performance management.

The entire federal public sector is supposed to be on the cusp of a new era in information management defined by interoperability, following the earlier shift to mostly digital record-keeping, but the auditor-general reports the process has fallen behind schedule.

APS commissioner Peter Woolcott has strengthened the obligations of all federal public servants with respect to their own performance, and those of managers at all levels.

South Australian Commissioner for Public Sector Employment Erma Ranieri has a plan to improve leadership, wellbeing, performance and workforce management across the board, informed by the state’s first whole-of-government staff survey.