TY - GEN T1 - Probing the bureaucratic mind : about Canadian federal executives T2 - Collaborative decentred metagovernance series ; A1 - Hubbard, Ruth, 1942- A1 - Paquet, Gilles LA - English PP - Ottawa, Canada PB - University of Ottawa Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1336020109 AB - "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."-- OP - 141 NO - Reprint. Originally published: Ottawa, Canada : Invenire, 2014. CN - JL111.E93 H83 2022 SN - 9780776638546 SN - 0776638548 SN - 9780776638539 SN - 077663853X KW - Government executives : Canada. KW - Government executives : Canada : Attitudes. KW - Civil service : Canada. KW - Critical thinking : Canada. KW - Problem solving : Canada. KW - Learning ability. KW - Hauts fonctionnaires : Canada. KW - Hauts fonctionnaires : Canada : Attitudes. KW - Pensée critique : Canada. KW - Résolution de problème : Canada. KW - Aptitude à l'apprentissage. KW - Civil service KW - Critical thinking KW - Government executives KW - Government executives : Attitudes KW - Learning ability KW - Problem solving KW - Canada ER -