Course Title: Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research)

Thesis Title: The Role of Leadership in Sustaining Public Sector Performance: A Case Study of the Balanced Scorecard Implementation in the Indonesian Ministry of Finance

Supervisors: Professor John Halligan and Dr Wahyu Sutiyono

The research aims to explore leadership roles in implementing effective performance management systems based on the implementation of Balanced Scorecard Approach to achieve performance excellence under the Indonesian Ministry of Finance bureaucratic reform program in 2007-2009. The proposed preliminary leadership-performance management system (PMS) framework is based on the construct of available literature to assess the leadership role in implementing effective performance management systems to achieve sustainable organizational performance results. By delineating and analyzing leadership roles and perspectives as the bureaucratic reform agenda occurs specifically in purpose to improving ministry’s performance, a better framework will be designed to comprehend the new model of leadership role in implementing effective PMS in the public sector.

Potential Implication for Policy Reform or Management Practices:

The research will develop a leadership model to sustain public sector performance. The study will also provide an in-depth analysis to support sustainability for the bureaucracy reform program especially in improving Indonesian public sector performance.

Short Bio:

Adi Budiarso is an ALA - AUSAID scholar and candidate of the Professional Doctorate in Business Administration, University of Canberra. He has been involved in the Indonesian Ministry of Finance team reform. He was the deputy director under the Minister of Finance’s Delivery Unit, acting as the team leader in developing the strategy management office in the Indonesian Minister of Finance in purpose to coordinate the cascading process of the implementation of Balanced Scorecard throughout 12 units under the ministry of finance up until echelon III during 2007-2009. Adi holds Master of Accounting from the University of Southern California, USA in 2001 and Diploma IV in Accounting from the State College of Accountancy, Jakarta in 1997.