Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Workplace
Abstract I question how Indigenous identity, relationships, and the workplace environment affect an Indigenous employee’s experience in the workplace. I had the pleasure and opportunity of hearing and now sharing the stories of seven Indigenous alumni from the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laur...
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ftunivwaterloo:oai:uwspace.uwaterloo.ca:10012/17835 2023-05-15T16:17:01+02:00 Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Workplace Hunt, Jaydum 2021-12-20 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17835 en eng University of Waterloo http://hdl.handle.net/10012/17835 indigenous aboriginal native workplace wholistic organizational framework relational conversations psychology industrial-organizational first nations metis inuit Master Thesis 2021 ftunivwaterloo 2022-06-18T23:03:37Z Abstract I question how Indigenous identity, relationships, and the workplace environment affect an Indigenous employee’s experience in the workplace. I had the pleasure and opportunity of hearing and now sharing the stories of seven Indigenous alumni from the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University, who live and work in southwestern Ontario. Research shows that Indigenous employees are unsatisfied, have a high attrition rate, and lack representation within the workplace (Hsiao, Auld & Ma, 2014; Liao, Chuang, & Joshi, 2008; Racine, 2016; Scott, Heathcote & Gruman, 2011). My research aimed to understand the sources of satisfaction and retention for Indigenous employees within the workplace. To do this, I had conversations about their experiences within the organizations that they work. The themes discussed in the conversations covered cultural identity, workplace relationships, communication, and workplace environment. The first theme surrounding identity comes from my journey surrounding my indigeneity , my changing identity, and the impact it has had on my experience throughout life, in school, and within the workplace. The second theme, communication, comes from the understanding that communication is a part of every organizational process and is related to task performance, job satisfaction, and trust. (Adair, Buchan, Chen, & Liu, 2016). The third theme, relationships, is a big part of the workplace experience for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people (Burgess & Dyer, 2009; Venkataramani, Labianca, & Grosser, 2013). The fourth and final theme, the workplace environment, is taken into consideration as it is another large part of the experience of Indigenous employees within the workplace. In order to have a full understanding of the experience of an Indigenous employee, it was necessary to use Indigenous research methods. I had four relational conversations with each participant that ranged from 45 minutes to an hour in length and took place in the majority of my ... Master Thesis First Nations inuit University of Waterloo, Canada: Institutional Repository Buchan ENVELOPE(-44.700,-44.700,-60.766,-60.766) Burgess ENVELOPE(76.128,76.128,-69.415,-69.415) Dyer ENVELOPE(-81.366,-81.366,50.550,50.550) |
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Abstract I question how Indigenous identity, relationships, and the workplace environment affect an Indigenous employee’s experience in the workplace. I had the pleasure and opportunity of hearing and now sharing the stories of seven Indigenous alumni from the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University, who live and work in southwestern Ontario. Research shows that Indigenous employees are unsatisfied, have a high attrition rate, and lack representation within the workplace (Hsiao, Auld & Ma, 2014; Liao, Chuang, & Joshi, 2008; Racine, 2016; Scott, Heathcote & Gruman, 2011). My research aimed to understand the sources of satisfaction and retention for Indigenous employees within the workplace. To do this, I had conversations about their experiences within the organizations that they work. The themes discussed in the conversations covered cultural identity, workplace relationships, communication, and workplace environment. The first theme surrounding identity comes from my journey surrounding my indigeneity , my changing identity, and the impact it has had on my experience throughout life, in school, and within the workplace. The second theme, communication, comes from the understanding that communication is a part of every organizational process and is related to task performance, job satisfaction, and trust. (Adair, Buchan, Chen, & Liu, 2016). The third theme, relationships, is a big part of the workplace experience for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people (Burgess & Dyer, 2009; Venkataramani, Labianca, & Grosser, 2013). The fourth and final theme, the workplace environment, is taken into consideration as it is another large part of the experience of Indigenous employees within the workplace. In order to have a full understanding of the experience of an Indigenous employee, it was necessary to use Indigenous research methods. I had four relational conversations with each participant that ranged from 45 minutes to an hour in length and took place in the majority of my ... |
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