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Corporate governance framework
The Commission has an integrated corporate performance planning and management framework that facilitates the effective achievement within budget of the commitments in the Commission’s corporate plan and assists accountability. The framework links the Commission’s corporate plan, group business plans and individual performance agreements. A schematic representation of the framework is set out at Figure 4.
Figure 4: Commission’s corporate governance framework
At the broadest level, we set out our performance expectations and planned use of resources through our portfolio budget statements and corporate plan. We account for our performance and use of resources through our annual report to parliament.
Business plans are developed annually to support achievement of the corporate plan. The business plans provide the basis for agreeing group priorities and allocating internal budgets. Performance and use of resources is accounted for through group managers’ appraisals.
Corporate decision making and advisory structure
The Executive comprises the Public Service Commissioner, Deputy Public Service Commissioner, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Coordinator and Merit Protection Commissioner. The Executive provides strategic management of the Commission by establishing its directions and work programme, directing the agenda for the Commission Management Committee, agreeing business plans and budgets, and determining senior staffing matters. The Executive meets fortnightly throughout the year and is supported by the Group Manager, Corporate.
The Commission Management Committee comprises the Executive, Group Managers and the Adviser to the Merit Protection Commissioner and is the Commission’s main leadership and management advisory body. The committee is responsible for:
- signing off the corporate plan and corporate policies and leading the implementation of strategic priorities
- reviewing and monitoring performance against business plans and budgets ensuring they are consistent with overall corporate directions
- providing a forum for discussing APS policy issues.
Other formal internal advisory bodies are the Audit Committee, the Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Workplace Relations Committee, the Occupational Health and Safety Committee and the Security Committee. The work of these bodies is detailed under their specific interest areas in this part of the report.
