Probing the bureaucratic mind :: about Canadian federal executives /

"This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of r...

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Main Authors: Hubbard, Ruth, 1942- (Author), Paquet, Gilles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa, Canada : University of Ottawa Press, 2022.
Series:Collaborative decentred metagovernance series ; v. 6.
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Summary:"This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, and the reluctance to abandon old conceptual frameworks is often responsible for fundamental learning disabilities. Through a series of conversations with Canadian federal senior executives about more and more daunting problems --from coping with an evolving context, to engaging intelligently with a new modus operandi, to trying to nudge and tweak programs in order to correct toxic pathologies, to reframing perceptions and redesigning organizations to meet the new challenges--weaknesses of the capabilities of the Canadian federal executives to respond to current challenges were revealed, and suggestions made about ways to kick start a process of refurbishment of these capabilities."--
Item Description:Reprint. Originally published: Ottawa, Canada : Invenire, 2014.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780776638546
0776638548
9780776638539
077663853X