Collaboration in the Public Sector
This workshop is an exciting initiative in which managers from departments across a government learn and work together on effective collaboration. Within a public sector management framework, participants explore contending views of value, strategy and service delivery.
A central focus will be insights into effective collaboration, including topics such as:
- types of inter-organisational collaboration
- identifying collaboration opportunities through the public value chain
- when and when not to collaborate
- building trust between organisations
- facilitators of and barriers to collaboration
Who Should Attend?
The course is suited to middle managers across a range of departments and roles.
This workshop can be customised. To enquire about running this course in your jurisdiction please contact our Executive Education Team.
Course Leader - Professor John Alford
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Prof Alford is Professor of Public Sector Management at ANZSOG, on extended leave from the Melbourne Business School (MBS). He joined the MBS in 1988 after a position in the Victorian Government where he was responsible for industrial relations policy and change management. As well as leading the subject 'Delivering Public Value' in ANZSOG's EMPA, Prof Alford directs the School's Executive Fellows Program.
Among his publications are articles in Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, Public Management Review, Public Money and Management, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. He is the author of engaging Public Sector Clients, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009, co-author of The Governance of Australia's Courts: A Managerial Perspective (2004) and co-editor of The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government (1994).
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