4. Management and accountability
Management Committee
The Management Committee, comprising the Director, the Executive Officer and the unit managers, meets monthly.
As PSR is a small agency, its Management Committee performs a range of roles that might be performed by specialist committees in larger organisations. The committee’s agenda varies depending on current issues but regularly covers:
- business planning
- performance monitoring
- corporate governance
- finance
- human resources
- internal audit and audit committee activities
- occupational health and safety
- operational issues
- stakeholder management.
Key issues for the committee this year were managing the significantly increased workload from Medicare Australia, implementing the revised organisational structure, developing PSR’s new Enterprise Agreement (to be implemented in 2009–10), identifying and implementing business process improvements and efficiencies, conducting a strategic review of information and communications technology capabilities and needs, and redeveloping PSR’s governance framework and supporting policies.