The Commission has developed the misconduct resistance framework to help public sector agencies better manage misconduct by increasing factors that prevent misconduct from occurring, and eliminating the factors that foster misconduct.

The main objective is to enhance agency strategies in both areas, integrating misconduct resistance with existing agency strategic planning, corporate governance and operational systems in a way that is effective, and produces measurable performance benefits.

Using an outcome based approach, the framework identifies that to achieve successful misconduct resistance agencies need to create and maintain:

• The right agency culture
• The right agency operational strategies
• The right agency management environment

These outcomes and their supporting key elements provide the benchmark for measuring the adequacy and effectiveness of agency misconduct resistance approaches.