All posts tagged "Performance"

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  ‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agenda

  Priorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and

  • Posted July 3, 2023
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  US agencies tasked with annual diversity reporting in new Biden order

  President Biden has signed a new executive order aimed at removing the multiple workplace barriers faced by US federal employees from disadvantaged communities, with the aspiration of turning government administration

  • Posted July 1, 2021
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  Capability-based pay to be introduced under UK civil service reform plans

  All senior appointments to the UK civil service will be open to public competition and capability-based pay will be introduced, under the government’s new reform programme announced today. Alongside transforming

  • Posted June 15, 2021
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  Trump moves to extend hire-and-fire powers over civil service

  Donald Trump issued an executive order last week that could remove employment protection rights for tens of thousands of federal employees, giving the president powers to hire and fire a

  • Posted October 26, 2020
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  Know your team: using data to drive staff engagement

  Disconnected systems and inconsistent information make it difficult for HR teams to keep pace with growth and change. But sophisticated tools that pool data into a single platform can offer

  • Posted February 28, 2020
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  Number of UK civil servants working on Brexit trebles in two years

  Civil service staff numbers in the UK have increased in every quarter since the summer of 2016, largely driven by the preparations needed to deliver Brexit. There are currently 25,000

  • Posted January 20, 2020
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  Australian Public Service prepares for “rapid phase of reform” as government responds to landmark review

  The Australian government has rejected recommendations that it introduce common pay scales across the civil service, do away with staffing caps and establish a code of conduct for ministerial advisors,

  • Posted December 15, 2019
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  One in ten US staff sought new job after shutdown, official survey finds

  Nearly half of US federal employees saw their work undermined or pay packets hit during the government shutdown last winter, according to the annual survey of American civil servants, with

  • Posted November 12, 2019
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  Former Australian departmental chief calls for an end to performance pay

  The former chief of staff to prime minister Paul Keating has said he is “absolutely certain” that performance-related pay doesn’t work in the Australian Public Service (APS). Allan Hawke –

  • Posted October 4, 2019
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  Happy shoppers: spending public money well

  Politicians love splashing the cash, finance leaders agreed at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit – but spending that money effectively demands good financial management, intelligent targets, inspiring leaders and

  • Posted September 19, 2019
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