Download or read book Public Sector Governance in Australia written by Meredith Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia lacks a scholarly book that covers recent developments in public sector governance in Australia and blends cross-disciplinary perspectives from law, management, public administration and public policy. The primary reason for writing this book is to fill the gap in the treatment of this subject, and to provide insights from empirical evidence and current practice. The book provides the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical work on governance in the Commonwealth public sector. It addresses the issues that emerged under the Howard government as well as their handling under the Rudd and Gillard governments.The book aims to enhance understanding ofand communication about public governance across government, industry and the community. The authors bring to this book expertise gained from political science, publicadministration and policy, public and private sector law.
Download or read book Public Sector Accounting Accountability and Governance written by Robyn Pilcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funded by taxation, public spending cannot be separated from politics and ensuring efficiency and effectiveness is always high on the political and policy agenda. Accounting, accountability, governance and auditing are essential ingredients in evaluating public sector performance. Australia and New Zealand are world leaders when it comes to public sector accounting—such as being the first to introduce transaction-neutral accounting standards. This edited collection considers current issues impacting the public sector by primarily drawing upon experiences of Australia and New Zealand. Then, by combining history (from the time of the Domesday book, early sovereignty and Shakespeare) with current practice (differential reporting, international financial reporting standards, government performance, voter turnout, joined-up government and auditing practices), we use these experiences to illuminate the global issues of public sector accounting, accountability and governance. Based on rigorous research by top public sector researchers, this edited collection offers a multitude of future research ideas to enable those interested in following this pathway—whether they are in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States of America, Africa or anywhere else in the world—an avenue to traverse.
Download or read book Corporate Governance in Public Sector Enterprises written by S. M. Dewan and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to understand issues of corporate governance in the case of the public sector units in India.
Download or read book Corporate Governance in the Australian Public Service written by Tony Tucker and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite it popularity in the private sector, corporate governance has had little traction in the public sector. This study explores the successes and failures of corporate governance as a means of filling the accountability and control gap in Departments of State in the Australian public service. As with other Western democracies, the introduction into Australia of public service reform marked a substantial shift away from the traditional process-based public sector model to a model that increasingly emulated the private sector. These reforms, however, failed to address directly the changes needed in accountability and control in the public service. Corporate governance exists in both private and public sectors as a dichotomy of formal and informal elements, and the informal elements play a paramount role in achieving proper results for government. The Australian immigration department is used to demonstrate that even an organisation with a proud international record in assisting the most vulnerable in the world, can fail if its corporate governance mechanisms are not universally and correctly applied, resulting in outcomes described by an independent inquiry as 'catastrophic'.
Download or read book All Above Board written by Julie Garland McLellan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written as a practical guide for people who are serving on, aspiring to serve on boards, or working in an organisation that has an interface with a government sector board." - introduction.
Download or read book Foundations of Governance in the Australian Public Service written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers a wide range of agency head responsibilities, including accountability requirements, the financial management framework, the employment and workplace relations framework, and the management of Government information." - page iii.
Download or read book Competing for Influence written by Barry Ferguson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst growing dissatisfaction with the state of government performance and an erosion of trust in our political class, Competing for Influence asks: what sort of public service do we want in Australia? Drawing on his experience in both the public and private sectors – and citing academic research across the fields of public sector management, industrial organisation, and corporate strategy – Barry Ferguson argues the case for the careful selection and application of private sector management concepts to the public service, both for their ability to strengthen the public service and inform public policy. These include competitive advantage, competitive positioning, horizontal strategy and organisational design, and innovation as an all-encompassing organisational adjustment mechanism to a changeable environment. But these are not presented as a silver bullet, and Ferguson addresses other approaches to reform, including the need to rebuild the Public Sector Act, the need to reconsider the interface between political and administrative arms of government (and determine what is in the ‘public interest’), and the need for greater independence for the public service within a clarified role. This approach, and its implications for public sector reform, is contrasted with the straitjacket of path dependency that presently constricts the field.
Download or read book The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public sector reform has moved on apace since the first of the Commonwealth Public Service Country Profile Series was launched in 1995 when the principles of New Public Management (NPM) were in an early stage of adoption. Since then, the various civil services described in the series have undergone radical change in scope, organization and approach rendering a revision timely. Now up dated and completely revised, these re-issued Country Profiles continue to be an accessible and valuable source of reference which attempt to both describe and analyze the often tumultuous and controversial public sector reforms which have taken place in contributing countries since 1995. Practicing bureaucrats, diplomats, political and academic audiences will find these new books invaluable in benchmarking best practice in public sector reform across Commonwealth member countries.
Download or read book Leadership in Government written by Andrew Korac-Kakabadse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this study formed the basis of a report submitted to the Australian Commonwealth Government as an independent piece of research. With the onset of large organizations, leadership has become increasingly important, being viewed both from the perspective of action and from the influence of context. The authors examine leadership in the Australian public sector first through an overview of leadership, followed by a survey of the APS including the culture of the APS and recommendations for improvements.
Download or read book Law Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work written by and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of various factors which give rise to instances of 'partnership' style relations between capital and labour within businesses. In pursuing this task, the book draws upon a new and extensive set of empirical data constructed by the authors, which examines the activities of business corporations in Australia, their outlooks and relationships with stakeholders, and relates these to two new and evolving theoretical frameworks based in political economy and law.
Download or read book Reforming Public and Corporate Governance written by Pyŏng-man An and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 studies were developed during a three-year research project conducted collaboratively by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, the University of Canberra, and the University of Exeter, and have been presented in various versions at a number of conferences. Focusing on the interaction between public administration and corporate governance, scholars of politics, business, and law analyze and evaluate the rapid changes taking place in the political economy of the three countries, the principles underlying reform in them at different stages of reform, and how the course of the reforms has been influenced by the experience of international models. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Corporate Governance in the Australian Public Service written by Tony Ralph Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Corporate Governance in Australia written by Gregory E. P. Shailer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author comments in the Introduction to this book, Corporate Governance is currently a popular topic with regulators, investors, company directors and executives, commentators and academics but this is not just a recent phenomenon. While current interest may be largely a response to major cases of company failure and managerial misconduct, many of the basic issues involved were of concern when limited liability companies were first invented and have been revisited at other times in history. This text offers a very concise introduction to the principles of corporate governance for those wishing to understand the main issues affecting corporate governance in relation to publicly traded corporations. It provides a general overview of the origins and nature of this type of corporation, its stakeholders, the general principles of governance and how they apply to corporations and a brief discussion of Australian as well as international developments that affect Australian companies. The approach adopted in An Introduction to Corporate Governance in Australia emphasises understanding the nature of the entity being governed and how the general principles of governance apply to such an entity.
Download or read book Corporate Governance in Government Corporations written by Michael J. Whincop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many governments across the world have responded to the need for greater efficiency in the delivery of government services by the reorganization of these bureaucracies along the lines of for-profit business corporations. In doing so, governments have relied on the capacity for governance practices to overcome the weaker incentives created by the attenuated 'property rights' that are created in public enterprise.
Download or read book Corporate Management written by Ivan Beringer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces basic issues and approaches to corporate management in the public sector. Examines major issues involved in organisational development. Identifies principles and options available to management and shows managers how to review existing organisations, how to implement a plan that will meet their requirements and those of government and how to be responsive to changing circumstances.
Download or read book Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services written by Andrea Bonomi Savignon and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to answer the unsolved questions related to hybrid organisations, adopting a multifaceted approach focussing on different national contexts, including the UK, Italy, Australia, and Sweden, as well as global organisations. Authors consider policy sectors including humanitarian aid, local transport, healthcare, and welfare services.
Download or read book Reforming Corporate Governance in the Australian Federal Public Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Addresses some key design and implementation issues for the immediate post-Uhrig report era." - introduction.
