Janine is Director (Education) in the Crawford School of Economics and Government and her research interests are in public sector management and reform. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government where she is involved in Delivering Public Value,  Work Based Project, the Pacific Executive Program and a member of the Case Study Editorial Board. In 2011 Janine was recognised with a national teaching award, the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). This followed her being named as a recipient of The Australian National University's highest award for teaching, the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and the ANU College of Asia and Pacific Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009.  She works with several PhD scholars examining issues of public sector reform. Janine is an Editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management & Organization and Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada.

Research interests/expertise

• Public sector management
• Public sector reform and relationships
• The role of public managers and paradigmatic change
• People management in the public sector

Current Research Projects

Janine is engaged in a multi-year project with the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Secretaries Group to provide strategic and operational advice on the design and implementation of the APS-wide performance management framework to support the key recommendations of the Ahead of the Game Blueprint for Reform of Australian Government Administration. This will involve investigating innovative approaches internationally, working with the APSC Strategic Centre for Leadership, Learning and Development to design the learning and development strategy to develop capabilities to effectively manage performance in the Australian Public Service, and devising the principles, strategy and framework for the new model.

Janine was recently Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council funded Linkage Projects. The first examined experiments with joined-up government in Australia and involved six Commonwealth government organisations. Key themes in the project included: inter-organisational collaboration, horizontal and vertical coordination, incentive structures, organisational culture, and leadership. The second project examined trust, competition and control in the new generation employment services model in Australia and involved collaboration with peak bodies and providers in the disability employment services market.

She is currently completing two books. The first, co-authored with John Alford for Palgrave (due for publication early 2012), considers how government organisations work with external providers in service delivery and covers the full range of contributors (from clients, volunteers and regulatees through to private, non-profit and other government organisations) and the various modes of engagement (from collaboration and contracts through to co-production). The second examines the international experience with working across boundaries in public management and policy and will be published late 2012 early 2013 by Routledge.

Selected publications

*Full list available on request

• O'Flynn, J. (2011) Some Practical Thoughts on Working Across Boundaries, Occasional Paper No.14, Australia and New Zealand School of Government and State Services Authority Of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
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• O'Flynn, J., Vardon, S., Yeatman, A., Carson, L. (2011) Perspectives on the Capacity of the Australian Public Service and Effective Policy Development and Implementation,  Australian Journal of Public Administration, 70(3), pp.309-317.
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• Halligan, J., Buick, F. and O'Flynn, J. (in press) Experiments with Joined-Up, Horizontal and Whole-of-Government in Anglophone Countries, in A.Massey (ed.) International Handbook on Civil Service Systems, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
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• O'Flynn, J. (2011) All Praise Public Value? The Ideas, The Debate and Some Applications, Guest Editor Introduction to special issue on Public Value, Australian Journal of Public Administration
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• O'Flynn, J., Buick, F., Blackman, D. and Halligan, J. (2011) You Win Some, You Lose Some: Experiments with Joined-Up Government, International Journal of Public Administration, 34(4), pp. 244-254.
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• Ainsworth, S., Knox, A. and O’Flynn, J. (2010) 'A Blinding Lack of Progress': Management Rhetoric and Affirmative Action, Gender, Work & Organization, 17(6), pp.654-678.
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• Blackman, D., O'Flynn, J. and Mishra, D.P. (2010) Can Strategic Human Resource Management enable Gross National Happiness? International Journal of Commerce and Management, 20(3), pp.232-245.
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• Blackman, D., Buick, F., Halligan, J., O'Flynn, J. and Marsh, I (2010) Australian Experiments with Whole of Government: Constraints and Paradoxes in Practice, paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management conference, Berne, Switzerland, April 7-10.
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• O'Flynn, J., Halligan, J. and Blackman, D. (2010) Working Across Boundaries: Barriers, Enablers, Tensions and Puzzles, paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management conference, Berne, Switzerland, April 7-10.
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• O’Flynn, J. (2009) The Public Value Debate: Emerging Ethical Issues. Public Leadership Workshop, 26-27 November, The Australian National University,  Canberra.
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• O’Flynn, J, and Blackman, D. (2009) Experimenting With Organisational Design In Bhutan: Tools For Reform And The Achievement Of Multi-Level Goals, Public Administration And Development, 29(2), pp. 133-144
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• O'Flynn, J. (2009) The Cult of Collaboration in Public Policy, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 68 (1), pp. 112-116.
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• Alford, J. and O'Flynn, J (2009) Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings, International Journal of Public Administration, 32 (3-4), pp. 171-191.
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• O’Flynn, J. (2008) Australian Capital Territory Political Chronicles, Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 54, Number 4, pp. 657-662
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• O’Flynn, J. (2008) Australian Capital Territory Political Chronicles, Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 336-341
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• Alford, J. and O’Flynn J. (2008) Public Value: A Stocktake of a Concept, paper presented at Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Brisbane, April.
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• O’Flynn, J. (2008) Elusive Appeal or Aspirational Ideal? The Rhetoric and Reality of the ‘Collaborative Turn’ in Public Policy, in O’Flynn, J. and Wanna, J. (eds.) Collaborative Governance:  A New Era of Public Policy in Australia, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, The Australian National University, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
• O’Flynn, J. and Alford, J. (2008) The Separation/Specification Dilemma in Contracting: The Local Government Experience in Victoria, Public Administration.
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• O’Flynn, J, and Blackman, D. (2008) Experimenting with Organisational Design in Bhutan: Tools for Reform and the Achievement of Multi-Level Goals, Policy and Governance Discussion Paper, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra
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• O’Flynn, J. and Wanna, J. (eds.) (2008) Collaborative Governance:  A New Era of Public Policy in Australia, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, The Australian National University, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
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• Aulich, C. and O'Flynn, J. (2007) From Public to Private: The Australian Experience of Privatisation, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 29 (2), pp.151-169.
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• Aulich, C. and O'Flynn, J. (2007) John Howard: The Great Privatiser? Australian Journal of Political Science, 42:2, 365 – 381.
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• O’Flynn, J. (2007) From New Public Management to Public Value: Paradigmatic Change and Managerial Implications, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 66(3).
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• O’Flynn, J. (2006) Post-Bureaucratic, Post-Competitive Government: Can a Public Value Perspective Provide the Way Forward? European Foundation for Management Development conference, 14-16 June 2006, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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• O’Flynn, J. (2005) A Public Value Framework for Contractual Governance, PUBLIC, Issue 07, ESADE Institute of Public Management, Barcelona, December (invited contribution).
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• Sammartino, A., O’Flynn, J. and Nicholas, S. (2003) The Employer Perspective of
  Indigenous (Un)Employment, Economic Papers, 22 (4), pp. 45-60.
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• Walsh, J. and O’Flynn, J. (2000) Managing Through Contracts: The Employment Effects of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Australian Local Government, Industrial Relations Journal, 31 (5), pp. 454-469.
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Teaching

• Case Studies in Public Sector Management (POGO 8055)
• Contributor to Delivering Public Value (Australia and New Zealand School of Government)

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