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Almost a year since Coaldrake, what happened to public sector reform in Queensland?

Culture

Despite promising to adopt Peter Coaldrake’s recommendations ‘lock, stock and barrel’, Palaszczuk has shown little enthusiasm for reform.

Amy Brown scapegoated to obscure far greater travesties

By James Tucker

Editors' Picks

Frank and fearless advice is the bedrock of our Westminster style of government, but no modern departmental secretary would dare provide it.

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What’s the most effective way to motivate staff? Performance pay schemes are trending again, but Allan Hawke saw distorted results

By Allan Hawke

Australian Capital Territory

Allan Hawke is aware of the argument that performance pay is supposed to work in organisations where rewards constitute a significant part of total remuneration, judgments about performance are based on things under the direct control of the individual being assessed, and people are satisfied that the assessments and mechanisms used are fair and reasonable. And, he’s ‘absolutely certain’ none of those preconditions can be assured of in the APS.

Australia’s public servants: dedicated, highly trained … and elitist

By Ron Levy

Editors' Picks

The results of the Future of Australia’s Federation Survey depict a bureaucracy convinced of its own brilliance.

Organisational culture can eat strategy for breakfast

By Michael Papay & Andrew Simon

Sound strategy means little if you can’t execute it because your workforce has a destructive organisational culture. What are the next steps in transforming your agency?

Stephen Sedgwick: culture kills the strategy — so fix the culture

By Stephen Sedgwick

Features

In his final days in the role, the outgoing Australian public service commissioner reflects on culture, performance management and skilling the service for future needs.

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