Focus area: Culture
Our goal
Create an environment that supports a healthy, safe, respectful, inclusive and diverse workforce.
Action
Build a culturally capable, diverse, and inclusive workplace.
Our key activities
- Promote cultural capability at all levels
- Targets and actions aligned with sector diversity and inclusion strategies and programs
- Ensure recruitment, onboarding, performance and development processes are inclusive
- Celebrate and promote diversity through events, storytelling, and internal communication
Our measures
- Positive progress towards meeting sector diversity targets:
- 4% First Nations
- 12% People with disability
- 12% Culturally and linguistically diverse
- 50% Women in leadership (all levels Senior Officer/Senior Executive Service )
- Measure candidate perceptions through recruitment and onboarding surveys
- Internal communication channels promote diversity
Action
Foster a healthy, safe, and sustainable workforce.
Our key activities
- Embed psychosocial health and safety into leadership practices and risk management
- Promote early intervention, and equip managers and employees to identify and address emerging issues promptly
- Offer mental health and employee assistance program resources to promote wellbeing and performance
- Promote collaborative workload management through shared accountability between managers and employees
Our measures
- Improved Working for Queensland results for health and wellbeing, and workload
- Internal communication channels promote health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives
Action
Embed a values-led, high-performance culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Our key activities
- Integrate public sector and departmental values into recruitment, onboarding, performance, and development
- Establish clear expectations for behaviour and accountability and build manager capability to coach for high performance, and ensure underperformance is addressed promptly and appropriately
- Recognise individuals and teams who exemplify both values and outcomes
- Celebrate innovation and excellence across the department
Our measures
- Improved Working for Queensland results for employee engagement
- Improved Working for Queensland results for fair treatment
- Benchmark and measure engagement with recognition initiatives