Leading from between : Indigenous participation and leadership in the public service / Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Althaus, Catherine (Catherine Eileen), author.

O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 94.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Employment--British Columbia.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Employment--Australia--Queensland.

Public service employment--British Columbia.

Public service employment.

Public service employment--Australia--Queensland.

Diversity in the workplace.

Civil service.

Indigenous peoples--Employment.

Canada--Officials and employees.

Canada.

Australia--Officials and employees.

Australia.

Civil service--British Columbia.

Civil service--Australia--Queensland.

Diversity in the workplace--British Columbia.

Diversity in the workplace--Australia--Queensland.

Employees.

British Columbia.

Queensland.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

1 Indigenous Peoples in Public Services: Leadership, Culture, and Bureaucracy p. 3

2 History and Context: Indigenous Marginalization and Survival p. 23

3 Indigenous Employment in the Queensland and British Columbia Public Services, 1991-2015 p. 50

4 Research on Public Sector and Indigenous Leadership p. 74

5 Indigenous Understandings of Leadership: Personal, Community, and Bureaucracy p. 98

6 Barriers to Indigenous Participation and Leadership Practice p. 134

7 Indigenous Participation and Leadership: Facilitators and Impact p. 174

8 Conclusion: Indigenous Participation and Leadership in Public Services p. 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Althaus, Catherine (Catherine Eileen) Leading from between.

ISBN:

0773559140

9780773559141

9780773559134

0773559132

OCLC:

1096483567