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SKI AND SNOWBOARD AUSTRALIA LIMITED
CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW SURVEY
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is sponsoring, with the
agreement of Ski and Snowboard Australia Limited (SSA), an
independent review of the governance of SSA as the National
Sporting Organisation for snowsports in Australia.
For the purpose of this review, governance is taken to mean the
legal, constitutional, procedural, practice and behavioural
processes by which the governing body translates the wishes of
members into effective organizational performance through:
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Assessing risk; |
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Setting strategic direction and priorities; |
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Communicating and interacting with stakeholders, especially
members; and |
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Monitoring and evaluating organizational achievements. |
The scope of the review will examine how SSA is currently governed
and, to the extent there are any deficiencies, how it ought to be
governed in accordance with best practice principles and practices,
in order to perform its function as the nationally and
internationally recognized national sporting organization for
skiing and snowboarding in Australia.
The terms of reference for the review are:
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Identify and report on the expectations of key stakeholders for SSA
and for skiing and snowboarding in Australia; |
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Specify and report on best practice governance principles and
practices to be used in assessing SSA’s governance; |
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Examine and report on the roles and responsibilities of SSA in
relation to the sport as a whole; |
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In relation to (1) to (3) above, examine and report on the
appropriateness of SSA’s and the sport’s:
(a)
legal and constitutional structure, alignments, procedures and
practices;
(b)
organizational structure and alignments at national and
sub-national levels;
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communications and interactions with key stakeholders; |
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Recommend improvements to remedy any deficiencies in SSA’s
governance and in the way the sport is governed in Australia. |
An important part of the review is to obtain feedback from key
stakeholders interested in snowsports regarding how the sport is
governed and the role of SSA in this. This questionnaire is
intended to provide one of the main data collections to inform the
review’s findings.
The questionnaire is in three parts:
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Part A
seeks information on the respondent. |
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Part B
is a qualitative survey of your views in relation to the things you
value most about the way snowsports are delivered and the things
you would most like to see changed in the way snowsports are
delivered. |
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Part C
is a more structured, mainly quantitative, survey of your views on
SSA’s constitution, structure, communications and strategic
management. |
It would be very helpful to obtain your responses to these matters.
If you do not wish to complete all parts of the questionnaire,
please complete the parts you are able to and return the
questionnaire to:
skigovernancesurvey@ausport.gov.au. If you do not have access
to email, please send the completed questionnaire to:
Dr Robert Kidston
Senior Consultant (Governance and Management Improvement)
Australian Sports Commission
PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
Should you have any queries regarding this survey, please contact
Dr Kidston (who is providing secretariat support for the review) on
(02) 6214 7001 or myself on (08) 8139 1129.
If you would like to elaborate on any of your responses or provide
further information, please attach a separate document to the
completed questionnaire.
The closing date for return of the completed questionnaires is
22 September 2005.
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this review.
Kate Costello
Independent Reviewer
5 September 2005
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