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Can Governance Learn?

with Associate Professor Colin Sharp
Associate Professor of Management
Flinders Institute of Public Policy & Management

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As a Psychologist, manager, director and educator, Colin Sharp has mainly worked in public service delivery and evaluation in the human services. Through management and consultancy positions he has given expert advice and consultancy to Boards and top Management, in mainly human service organisations. As an academic he has produced over 60 publications and
conference papers on:
  • human services program delivery (especially care and training of people with disability, and the disoriented elderly), development, quality assurance and evaluation;
  • methodologies, design, ethics and standards in performance measurement and evaluation;
  • strategic evaluation, strategic management, R&D management, and research or innovation methodologies;
  • organisational learning (including organisational culture, organisational change and organisational development) methodologies.
He has been active in program evaluation since 1983, and internal audit education since 1996. A founding member of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES), he has held its offices of Vice-President and President, as well as Foundation Chair of the Committee on Ethics and Standards in Evaluation, and more recently Co-Editor of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia (till end of 2003; see www.aes.asn.au) As an active contributor to community organisations, and in over 30  consultancies, he has advised senior management and Directors of many organisations. For example, he set up the evaluation framework and S.T.A.R.T. A Do-it-Yourself Evaluation Manual for the Australian Youth Foundation.

On this occasion he will present on his research on the role of evaluation in organisational governance and the role of Boards in determining appropriateness issues.

Download A/Prof Sharp's notes (Powerpoint document, 2.33 MB)

Chairperson:

Professor Mark Considine
Director, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne

Mark Considine is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and his areas of expertise include Australian politics, comparative social policy, public sector reform, governance and public administration, and organisational sociology. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Public Policy.

In 2000 he won the American Society for Public Administration's Marshall E. Dimmock Award for the best lead article published in Public Administration Review, with his co-author, Jenny M Lewis. In 2001 he won the American Educational research Association's Book of the Year for The Enterprise University, written with Simon Marginson. He is also involved in assisting government and the community sector in a number of projects and organisational reviews including the Premier's Working Party of Strategic Partnerships with the Community Sector and the Victorian Local Governance Association, Innovation and Communication review.
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