A DRDC Management Accountability Framework: Results of Cycle 2

Abstract

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), a special operating agency of the Department of National Defence, contracted Dalhousie University to support the development of a management accountability framework (MAF) as part of DRDC's EXPEDITION 09 organizational change project. The DRDC MAF used the Treasury Board Secretariat MAF as a model, with Expectations, Indicators and Measures tiers. In Cycle 2 of the contract, full Indicator and Measures tiers were developed, and the Expectations tier developed in Cycle 1 was refined. In Cycle 2, two pilot studies were conducted using web-based surveys of the DRDC management cadre. The first pilot of Cycle 2 evaluated the Risk Management and Accountability elements. The second pilot of Cycle 2 evaluated Policy and Programs and Service elements, and re-evaluated the Stewardship element from Cycle 1. The results of the pilot studies confirm the feasibility of the survey-based approach and provide a partial first assessment of DRDC's organizational performance against indicators for the elements of the proposed DRDC MAF.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Sep 01, 2009
• Accession Number: ADA539732

Entities

People

• Judy A. Baroni
• Warren C. Nethercote

Organizations

• Dalhousie University

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• C4I
• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Business Administration
• Employment
• Human Resources
• Knowledge Management
• Management Personnel
• Management Training
• Money
• National Security
• Organizational Structure
• Personnel Management
• Pilot Studies
• Political Science
• Public Administration
• Reliability
• Resource Management
• Risk
• Students

Readers

• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Organizational Process Management (OPM).