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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Althaus, Catherine, 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--Australia.

Indigenous peoples.

Canada--Officials and employees.

Canada.

Australia--Officials and employees.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : 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:

Indigenous Peoples in public services: leadership, culture, and bureaucracy

History and context: Indigenous marginalization and survival

Indigenous employment in the Queensland and British Columbia public services, 1991-2015

Research on public sectory and Indigenous leadership

Indigenous understandings of leadership: personal, community, and bureaucracy

Barriers to Indigenous participation and leadership practice

Indigenous participation and leadership: facilitators and impact

Conclusion: Indigenous participation and leadership in public services.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773559646

0773559647

9780773559639

0773559639