In 1997, the Government of Tonga (GOT) concluded that staff at senior levels in the Tonga civil service lacked appropriate management skills and competencies required for effective and efficient performance. GOT identified the Massey University Institute of Executive Development’s Diploma in Public Sector Management (Dip PSM) as suitable for their training needs.

The report provides an overview of current approaches to joined up government in Victoria. It explores the issues, barriers, strengths and lessons learned. The report also considers whether there are opportunities to further develop the Victorian government’s institutional capacity to better support joined up government.

Corporate CEO salary packages have risen spectacularly in recent decades – but these rises have enjoyed no significant connection with the standard market rationale: job difficulty/talent and performance. Although CEOs in the public sector are paid far less, their salaries are also rising fast and pay structures in the sector are rapidly becoming steeper. This...

National integrity systems function to ensure that power is exercised in a manner that is true to the values, purposes and duties for which that power is entrusted to, or held by, institutions and individual office-holders. This report by Dr AJ Brown looks at how different elements of National Integrity Systems Assessment (NISA) interact, which...

The Victorian government is in the process of cutting around 300 positions from the head office of the Department of Education and Training. In this paper, David Hayward looks at why the cuts are being made and whether they are justified.