01304pab a2200145 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Marton, Richard L. The path for top management teams to achieve high-performing council organisations 2003 p.50-58. This article examines what management practices top management teams should pursue to achieve high-performing council organisations. It reports on the findings of a study into the practices of top management teams at three high-performing and three low-performing Melbourne councils. The study makes two important findings. First, there is no one path for top management teams to achieve a high-performance council. Second, the capacity of top management teams to work effectively with the elected members is the only factor that distinguishes high-performing from low-performing councils. The only features all high-performing and all low-performing councils do well in are financial monitoring and nurturing teamwork within business/operating units. But these are insufficient by themselves to provide success, and may simply be regarded as the basics of management practice. - Reproduced. Management Australian Journal of Public Administration 59205 59205 59205 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 62, Issue no: 4 AR59650 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR