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Reforms in Human Resource Management in Australian Local Government

University of Canberra

Human resource management in Australian local government traditionally has been seen as the preserve of the internal management of local authorities although it has been practised within a framework drafted by state govern ments. Together with other prescription-based management practices, it has become a target of the national microeconomic reform process in the latter part of the 1980s, primarily through the intervention of the Commonwealth and state ministers for local government. This paper identifies the external pressures that have encouraged the reform of local government's human resource management practices and traces local government responses to these pressures.

The paper highlights the tension in promoting local autonomy while max imizing the impact of national and state strategies to increase the efficiency of public sectors in all spheres of government. It also raises the very real problem of implementing national change strategies at the local level.

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