1. OUR COMMITMENT TO MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT
Through its agenda for management improvement, the Government of Canada is:
- strengthening governance regimes that embrace individual accountability and increase transparency;
- taking responsible risks with the backing of sound control systems;
- providing services that are responsive to the needs of Canadians, rather than organizational demands;
- upholding professional public service values and standards of conduct by rewarding good performance and addressing mismanagement in a decisive and fair
manner;
- pursuing non-partisan public service excellence, through respect for public service employees and support for their learning and development; and
- ensuring that reliable, comparable performance information guides decisions and drives continuous improvement and resource allocation.
As the Auditor General of Canada noted in the introduction to her November 2004 report, the government's management agenda is ambitious and the magnitude of change
involved will be considerable. In tackling this challenge, the Government of Canada is dedicated to making itself more accountable, responsive, and innovative.
Accountable government strengthens mechanisms for transparency and forthright, descriptive reporting. These efforts improve policy development and help
the government take timely decisions and account to Parliament and to Canadians in meaningful ways on the results it achieves with public expenditures.
Responsive government means providing better service for Canadians and efficient internal operations, resulting in better outcomes that align with
Canadians' values and expectations through more coherent action across government.
Innovative government has the people, processes, systems, and information it needs to be more effective, so that it can identify priorities,
particularly in areas of horizontal programs, and invest in them to improve results.
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