What Really Happens: Department Secretary Appointments, Contracts and Performance Pay in the Australian Public Service

What Really Happens: Department Secretary Appointments, Contracts and Performance Pay in the Australian Public Service. Podger, A. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 66(2):131--147, June, 2007.

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This account of the practice in the Australian Public Service (APS) for appointing department secretaries, using contracts and rewarding for performance, is based on my own experience in being appointed, reappointed and not reappointed, and in receiving and not receiving performance pay. It also draws on my experience as Public Service Commissioner in assisting with appointments and performance pay of secretaries. I also discuss weaknesses in the current system, and the drift to ‘politicisation’.

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