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Leading from between : Indigenous participation and leadership in the public service

Althaus, Catherine (Catherine Eileen), author, O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran, author

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\"Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles. Their presence raises numerous questions: How do Indigenous people experience public-sector employment? What perspectives do they bring to it? And how does Indigenous leadership enhance public policy making? A comparative study of Indigenous public servants in British Columbia and Queensland, Leading from Between addresses critical concerns about leadership, difference, and public service. Centring the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants, this book uses their stories and testimony to explore how Indigenous participation and leadership change the way policies are made. Articulating a new understanding of leadership and what it could mean in contemporary public service, Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh challenge the public service sector to work towards a more personalized and responsive bureaucracy. At a time when Canada and Australia seek to advance reconciliation and self-determination agendas, Leading from Between shows how public servants who straddle the worlds of Western bureaucracy and Indigenous communities are key to helping governments meet the opportunities and challenges of growing diversity.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: Indigenous peoples Employment British Columbia. / Indigenous peoples Employment Australia Queensland. / Public service employment British Columbia. / Public service employment Australia Queensland. / Civil service British Columbia. / Civil service Australia Queensland. / Diversity in the workplace British Columbia. / Diversity in the workplace Australia Queensland. / Autochtones Travail Colombie-Britannique. / Autochtones Travail Australie Queensland. / Crâeation d'emplois Colombie-Britannique. / Crâeation d'emplois Australie Queensland. / Fonction publique Colombie-Britannique. / Fonction publique Australie Queensland. / Multiculturalisme en milieu de travail Colombie-Britannique. / Multiculturalisme en milieu de travail Australie Queensland. / Canada Officials and employees. / Australia Officials and employees. / Canada Fonctionnaires. / Australie Fonctionnaires.
• ISBN: 0773559140, 9780773559141, 9780773559134, 0773559132

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JF1659.M56 A48 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE