Access keys | Skip to site tools | Skip to primary navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer |
Problems viewing this site
Home > Developing people > Performance & development > Chief Executive Service (CES) - Performance Management and Development Framework

Chief Executive Service - Performance Management and Development Framework

The Chief Executive Performance Management and Development Framework aims to ensure that the Chief Executive Service (CES) is well positioned to deliver quality services and outcomes to sustain a culture of accountability for performance and continuous improvement.

Reflecting contemporary research and practice, the Framework encourages Chief executives to focus on performance across four broad elements:

  1. whole-of-government objectives
  2. other department priorities
  3. department governance and management, and
  4. executive leadership capabilities

Framework components

Two key components are central to the operation of the Framework:

  1. the annual Chief Executive Performance Agreement:

The Chief Executive Annual Performance Agreement occurs on a financial year basis to align with strategic planning and budget processes and to allow flow-on to agency Senior Executive Service (SES) performance agreements.

Development of the Performance Agreement involves completion of the relevant sections of the Chief Executive Performance Agreement Template.  It bears emphasis that Performance Agreements are dynamic documents and consequently targets and objectives may be updated throughout the course of the financial year.

  1. the annual Chief Executive Performance Review:

The performance review process is aligned to the anniversary date of a chief executive’s employment contract.  Each year, chief executives complete the Chief Executive Summary Performance Review Template.

The review of chief executive performance is conducted by the Performance Leadership Group (PLG), comprising the Director-General, Premier and Cabinet (Chair), the Under-Treasurer and the Chief Executive, PSC.  The PLG convenes four times a year to review the performance of Chief executives whose contracts fall due in the coming quarter. These reviews are also informed by the Ministerial Charter of Goals Review Meetings conducted by the Premier with the Portfolio Minister and relevant Director-General. The Performance Review process informs decisions made by the Premier in relation to a Chief executive’s pay progression, contract extension and renewal.

For more information about these components and processes, see the Guidelines for Performance Agreements and Performance Reviews 2009.

(Please note: documents mentioned in the above text are available in other formats in our Corporate publications section.)

Last update: 24 June, 2009