BETA recently contributed to the OECD’s LOGIC report, which identifies effective practices for incorporating behavioural science into mainstream policymaking. Find out how BETA implements the key principles of the OECD’s LOGIC report.
A factsheet for APS HR professionals
All government agencies collect employee data, including disability, for the APS Employment Database (APSED).
Research shows numerous barriers (attitudinal, organisational and structural) often prevent Australian Public Service (APS) employees from sharing their information in Human Resources (HR) systems.
HR professionals can use this guide to improve their agency’s data collection practices.
Example wording for APS HR professionals
This document accompanies the factsheet and maturity self-assessment for HR professionals.
Compare these examples alongside explanatory text and email reminders your agency provides to employees when asking about their disability information. What are you doing well? What can be improved?
A maturity self-assessment for APS HR Professionals
This maturity self-assessment accompanies the factsheet and example wording for HR professionals.
It will help you undertake a self‑assessment and consider your agency's maturity when requesting, collecting, and using APS employee disability information and offers suggestions for how to improve these practices.
BETA worked with the Australian Public Service Commission across two projects to improve communications provided to APS employees about disability information collection.
All government agencies collect employee data, including disability information, in HR systems. The decision to share disability information is a personal one and there are organisational, systemic and personal barriers to doing so.
We consulted with APS employees with disability and HR professionals, to develop guidance materials for APS HR professionals.
Within the Australian Public Service, we're lucky to have a highly active and engaged community of behavioural insights practitioners – The Behavioural Insights Practitioners Network (BIPN). Established over 5 years ago, the network now has practitioners across 22 government agencies. Whether they have a background in psychology, economics, data or public policy (to list a few), our members share one common purpose; in applying evidence from the behavioural sciences to help improve public policy and service delivery.
This is Part 2 of our blog series on how we used machine learning to analyse gendered language in job ads. In this blog, we go through the technical nitty gritty of how BETA analysed 12 million job ads, and what we found.
To help Australians find and book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment, the Department of Health and Aged Care (Health) partnered with Healthdirect Australia to deliver the Easy Vaccine Access (EVA) call service from 28 March 2022 to 4 December 2023. Health approached BETA to evaluate the program.
Thanks to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, we’ve all become aware of the power of natural language processing (NLP). But what is NLP? BETA explores the common terms and make sense of some of the hype.