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The Australian Defence Force has released a four-year plan to address systemic and cultural failings within the organisation as part of a long-awaited response to the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry.
The plan was posted on the website of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force on Friday, with no public statement or press release acknowledging its publication.
The 36-page document sets out a series of “work packages” to be rolled out until the end of 2025, with a commitment to making changes to organisational arrangements, recruitment processes and performance management.
It says the plan will be divided into five “streams”, with focuses on organisational arrangements and command accountability, culture, workforce, information and partnerships.
If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
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If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
How does any organisation identify its own blind spots? One of the most significant changes made to the ADF in recent times was about who could work, not how they did so.
By Samantha Crompvoets
Credit:Dean Sewell, ADF
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Why do we so often reach for culture to explain organisational issues? Perhaps because it is intuitive to do so. It provides a signpost for organisation-wide characteristics and matters of importance. But does it provide clarity or obscurity when it comes to really understanding a problem? Does it lead to accountability, or is it a barrier to the taking of responsibility? How do you even know when you’ve achieved cultural change? Should we in fact be considering other ways of analysing and addressing dee
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