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1 results foundAuthor: The Defence Committee, Department of Defence, Australian Government Title: Pathway to Change: Evolving Defence Culture - A Strategy for Cultural Change and Reinforcement Summary: The Australian Defence Organisation (Defence) has a long and honourable history of service in the defence of the nation and support of its interests. In doing so, we have won Australians’ admiration and respect over many decades. Core to much of our success has been the strength of our culture, collectively and within each of the Services. Our culture binds us as an organisation and shapes the way that we operate every day. On most occasions and in most circumstances we perform admirably, and in many situations we excel. However, as is evident from Force 2030, we have strategic challenges ahead that require us to be even better in our approach to work and in our dealings with each other. The Strategic Reform Program (SRP) and associated initiatives will deliver more focused effort and expenditure as well as improved internal governance. It is not possible to achieve our reform goals through technical and structural changes alone; each initiative has a human dimension requiring a shift in attitude and behaviour too. This in itself provides ample motivation for cultural change in Defence. But there is a further imperative. Recent events and a suite of Reviews remind us that we need to ensure our people demonstrate exemplary behaviour commensurate with the nation’s expectations, in and out of uniform, on and off duty. Despite our great strengths as an organisation, it is all too apparent that we are not uniformly good. We and Australia rightly expect that Defence will deliver to consistently high standards, whether in theatres of operations, capability development, support to our operations, our everyday personal behaviour or in how we treat our colleagues. We have learnt, to our cost, that we do not consistently meet these high standards and, more worryingly, that our culture has tolerated shortfalls in performance. Most of these failures are personal, but our inability to consistently address them quickly points to flaws and gaps in Defence’s processes and the need to reshape aspects of our single Service and whole of Defence culture. Put simply, we cannot be entirely satisfied with all aspects of our current culture; there are parts that serve us poorly, which limit our performance, hurt our people and damage our reputation. We are therefore determined to build on important initiatives such as New Generation Navy, the Adaptive Army and Air Force’s Adaptive Culture Program and take further actions to ensure that Defence remains a great and critical Australian asset. Pathway to Change: Evolving Defence Strategy is Defence’s statement of cultural intent and our strategy for realising that intent. Our work in implementing this strategy starts with accepting individual responsibility for one’s own behaviour, assisting others to live the culture, and putting the onus on leaders to be exemplars of positive and visible change at all times. It also involves amending policies and processes that do not align with our cultural intent. Details: Canberra: Department of Defence, 2012. 60p. Source: Response to the Defence Culture Reviews and Reform Directions: Internet Resource: Accessed March 13, 2012 at http://www.defence.gov.au/culturereviews/docs/120302%20Pathway%20to%20Change%20-%20Evolving%20Defence%20Culture%20-%20web%20version%20with%20covers.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Australia URL: http://www.defence.gov.au/culturereviews/docs/120302%20Pathway%20to%20Change%20-%20Evolving%20Defence%20Culture%20-%20web%20version%20with%20covers.pdf Shelf Number: 124521 Keywords: Homeland Security (Australia)Military (Australia)Police Behavior (Australia) |