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  • Workforce management

    Workforce management

    Day to day human resource needs.

    • Capability Framework

      Use the framework to create roles, recruit roles, manage performance, develop capability, career planning or workforce planning.

    • Performance development

      Includes the performance development framework, the managing for performance program, and the talent review framework.

    • Recruitment

      Includes the NSW Government Graduate program, recruitment and selection guide, NSW Public Service talent pools, assignments, transfers and secondment guides, onboarding and exiting information, and the NSW Aboriginal internships program.

    • Role descriptions

      Guidelines, templates, capability comparison guide, and a library of sector role descriptions.

    • Strategic workforce planning

      The Strategic Workforce Planning Framework and planning cycle.

    • NSW Leadership Academy

      The Leadership Academy delivers trusted leadership development programs that transform the individual and their teams to deliver benefits for the people of NSW.

    • People Manager Hub

      Key policies and resources to equip you with the knowledge, skills and tools to be an effective people manager.

    • Strategy mapping guide

      A guide to support senior leaders with organisational strategy.

    • Workforce management tools

      Includes key resources on the Government Employee Number (GEN), position coding automated tool (PCAT), the workforce dashboard and research scientist classification.

    • Organisation and role design

      Resources to support senior leaders contemplating an organisation restructure.

    Tools & resources

    • Role Description Builder
    • Occupation specific capability sets
    • Recruitment and selection guide
    • Performance development framework
  • Culture & inclusion

    Culture & inclusion

    Enabling workplaces where everyone is valued and can participate.

    • Workplace culture

      Includes the behaving ethically guide, positive and productive workplaces guide and the ethical framework.

    • Disability employment

      Includes resources to help managers become disability confident, inform employees with disability, and how to make workplaces inclusive for people with disability.

    • Diversity & inclusion

      Includes targets and support for gender equality, LGBTIQ+ network resources and support, legal requirements and best practice reports.

    • Aboriginal workforce

      Includes the Aboriginal Employment Strategy, Aboriginal Employment and Development program, Aboriginal employee networks and cultural protocol guidance.

    • Flexible working

      Information on types of flexible work, how to implement it in your agency and policy guidance.

    Tools & resources

    • Behaving ethically guide
    • Making the workplace accessible
    • Aboriginal employment strategy
    • Become an inclusive leader
  • Reports & data

    Reports & data

    Insights and analytics into the public sector workforce.

    • State of the NSW Public Sector

      The report provides an assessment of the key factors that influence the shape, performance and behaviour of public sector agencies and the people who work in them. Includes reports from 2012 to now.

    • Workforce Profile

      The Workforce Profile collection provides deeper analysis on workforce issues and characteristics. Includes data collections from the past 20 years.

    • People Matter Employee Survey

      Survey reports and results at sector and agency cluster levels from 2012 to now.

    • Other publications

      Includes the Capability Framework Stocktake Report and State of the Sector agency survey.

    Tools & resources

    • State of the NSW Public Sector Report 2021
    • 2022 PMES results
    • Workforce Profile Report 2021
  • Legislation & policy

    Legislation & policy

    The rules and guidelines for work in the sector.

    • Senior executives

      Access information and policies on remuneration frameworks, relocation expenses and work level standards for NSW senior executives.

    • GSE Act

      Includes information on the GSE Act, Rules and Regulations and guidelines followed by the PSC in utilising the Commissioner’s power.

    • Circulars and memos

      Search for circulars and memos.

    • Directions

      Legal directions made by the Commissioner to agencies from 2013 to now.

    • Determinations

      Information on decisions and rulings made by the Commissioner since 2013.

    • Guidelines

      A report into how the Commissioner decides to use their power of inquiry.

    • Boards and committees

      Includes a list of NSW government boards and committees, appointment standards and the Classification and Remuneration Framework.

    • Remuneration tribunals

      Includes the three remuneration tribunals: statutory and other offices, parliamentary and local government.

    • Public interest disclosure policy

      How to report serious wrongdoing in the sector.

    Key information

    • How the GSE Act affects employees
    • Senior executive remuneration management framework 2022-2023
    • Search PSC circulars and memos
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    About us

    More information about the NSW Public Service Commission.

    • PSC Advisory Board

      Biographies and information on our current board members.

    • Our leadership team

      Biographies and information on our senior executives.

    • Our code of ethics & conduct

      The code and framework applied to all PSC employees.

    • Annual reports

      Our annual reports from 2011 to now.

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      How to request and access PSC information under the GIPA act.

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