| Recommendation: 32 | Streamline management and adopt best practice ways of working to reduce hierarchy, improve decision-making, and bring the right APS expertise and resources | Overall status: Complete |
| Thodey guidance | Status | Delivery on Thodey |
|---|---|---|
| APSC and transformation leader to update 2014 APSC guidance on optimal management structures, and co-design guidance on best-practice ways of working for teams and agencies to do different types of work. | Complete | Guidance on Optimal Management Structures has been updated and published in response to findings of the APS Hierarchy and Classification Review and consultation with staff, agencies and unions. Subject to the passage of legislation, changes to the Public Service Act 1999 are underway to enable decision-making to be undertaken at the lowest appropriate classification. |
| APSC to review SES and non-SES classification levels and structures (including Work Level Standards) against best practice and future needs. | Complete | The APSC published the Hierarchy and Classification Review in 2022. The APS will act on many of the Review’s findings, but will not make changes to classifications at this stage. Instead, the APS will take steps to achieve the Review’s intent, including the implementation of more modern structures and ways of working. |
| Secretaries Board to consider consolidating management and operational levels across the APS on advice from the APSC review of classifications. | Complete | Consolidation of classification levels was considered by Secretaries Board in the context of the Hierarchy and Classification Review in 2022. The APS will not make changes to classifications at this stage. |
| Secretaries Board to set a timetable for all agencies to self-assess against best-practice management structures and ways of working, and implement plans to improve in response. Measure progress in capability reviews. | Complete | The current Capability Review framework includes consideration of management structures and ways of working. |