Management Practices Audit of the Saskatchewan Region - Follow-up Report Status Update as of March 31, 2014
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Action Plan Implementation Status Update Report to the Audit Committee - As of March 31, 2014
Saskatchewan Region
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| 1. The Regional Director General of the Saskatchewan Region should ensure that the Region's Business Plan is clearly integrated with the Human Resource Plan to demonstrate alignment between planning commitments and the financial and human resources required to achieve them. In integrating these plans, the Region should incorporate its succession planning process to help ensure employee development and training initiatives are aligned to and support the development of the skills and competencies required to meet the Region's short and long term planning commitments. | The Regional Succession Plan will be updated to take into consideration:
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March, 2013 | Status: Underway (the only remaining element to be addressed is the revision of the Succession Plan) Update/Rationale: As of 31/03/2014: Succession Planning: The Regional Succession plan will be updated by Q2, 2014-15. As part of the succession planning process, Competency Profiles have been developed for all classifications/levels within the Saskatchewan Region. These Competency Profiles were developed in consultation with managers and were finalized and shared with all managers and employees over the course of eight information sessions. These profiles will support hiring managers when implementing staffing processes and tools, and will serve as an important reference for all employees when developing career plans and learning plans. Integrated Planning: Corporate Planning and Human Resources staff have worked closely with each directorate in the Saskatchewan region to initiate directorate-level integrated planning. A template was adopted which includes both business planning and HR planning information elements. An integrated business planning and HR planning session was delivered in Q4. This session engaged directors, managers, and staff, in a discussion regarding regional priorities and human resources management implications. Business Planning and HR Planning information has been integrated at the strategic level in the finalized Saskatchewan Region Corporate Business Plan for 2014-15. AES: Implementation ongoing. The recommendation will be closed following the update on the SK Region’s succession plan. |
To ensure greater integration of HR and Business Planning, the Region will prepare an analysis of the HR planning implications for each "Planning Commitment" outlined in the in the Regional Corporate Business Plan for 2012-13, and will update this analysis when the Regional Corporate Business Plan for 2013-14 is complete. This HR planning analysis will be approved by regional HRMC and will be considered in decisions related to staffing and learning. |
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| 2. The Regional Director General of the Saskatchewan Region should use the results of the Public Service Employee Survey, published in February 2012 to gather information on possible communication, employee morale and values and ethics issues in the Region and establish a benchmark from which to develop an action plan in response. |
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March 31, 2013 | Status: - request to close (completed) Update / Rationale: As of 31/03/2013: An executive champion was assigned to developing the PSES Action Plan. A working group was established with employees from all levels and office locations. The working group conducted an analysis of the PSES results and held staff consultation sessions in all four office locations. The PSES action plan was drafted by the working group, approved by the region’s Human Resources Management Committee, and launched at an All-Staff meeting. AES: Implemented. Closed. |
| 3. The Regional Director General of the Saskatchewan Region should ensure the Region develops a formal and documented approach to risk management, including an ongoing process and governance structure for identifying, assessing, monitoring and assigning responsibility for risk mitigating actions. In the development of a regional approach to risk management, the Saskatchewan Region should leverage AANDC corporate risk management expertise where relevant and practical to help ensure a consistent approach to risk management is adopted. |
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Regional Risk Profile complete by January 31, 2013 Regional Mitigation Action Plan Completed by March 31, 2013, with implementation and monitoring commencing April 1 2013. |
Status: - request to close (completed) Update / Rationale: As of 31/03/2013: In consultation with the middle managers and through discussions among the senior managers, a regional Corporate Risk Profile was created, as well as a Risk Management tool, which allows for regular monitoring of mitigation activities. Each risk in the regional corporate risk inventory is assigned to a director for the purposes of monitoring and updating the senior management team on mitigation activities. The Risk Inventory is informing the integrated regional planning process for 2013-14. AES: Implemented. Closed. |
| 4. The Regional Director General of the Saskatchewan Region should ensure the Region formally documents its approach to performance measurement, including defining the process to develop, integrate, monitor, and report on performance indicators, as well as the process to adjust course, as necessary. | Region will continue to identify and report on performance indicators and milestones in the Quarterly Reports The Region will develop a Regional Performance Measurement Regime, documenting processes with respect to the development, monitoring and reporting of performance measures in the following contexts:
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March, 2013 | Status: Request to Close (Completed) Update/Rationale: As of 30/06/2013: Performance indicators and milestones have been identified in all quarterly reports for 2012-13. The Region will build performance measurement into the integrated HR and Business Planning process. (See recommendation number 1) A Directorate Planning template has been developed which captures milestones, performance measures and targets. Directorates will track progress against these indicators internally. Key indicators have been rolled-up into the Regional Corporate Business Plan and will be reported quarterly as part of the department’s quarterly reporting process. AES: Significantly implemented. The recommendation will be closed. Closed. |