ISSUE 152 : Jan/Feb - 2002 - Australian Defence Force Journal

26AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE JOURNAL NO. 152 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2002forward thinking and progressive” and“When people in this work area have goodideas, senior officers make use of them”. Thescale has a coefficient alpha value of 0.84.10. This does not mean that ADF officers do notneed skills; it means that, in aggregate, theydon’t need more skills beyond those theyhave now. Put it another way: if you had adollar to spend on performanceimprovement in the ADF, you should spendit on performance management, not skilldevelopment.11. Barrie, op. cit.12. Brigadier K.J. O’Brien, PE 98/27623 Theprovision of leadership development,education and training within Defence.Dr Nick Jans is an academic and management consultant whose work in the past 15 years has been largely concernedwith strategic human resources management and organisational capability. He is a Principal of Sigma Consultancy, anAustralian firm which specialises in strategic and organisational research. Sigma’s clients have included businesses andgovernment agencies in many countries, including the USA, Australia and New Zealand. His book, “The real C-cubed:culture, careers and climate and how they affect capability”, is to be published shortly.Ms Judy Frazer-Jans is the Managing Principal of Sigma Consultancy. She has been the producer or co-producer of anumber of studies for Commonwealth SES, the Australian Taxation Office and National Bank together with a decade ofsimilar studies for the ADF.