https:\/\/anchor.fm\/kwantlen-brenda\/episodes\/The-state-of-indigenous-procurement-in-British-Columbia-e2hprl.<\/p>\n
What comes across is your passion about your work and the subject matter of Indigenous procurement in BC.<\/p>\n
You are clear about what the problem is in your local setting and discuss what has worked and what has not worked. Listed are five issues that indigenous procurement struggles with in order that indigenous companies can either wholly be awarded a tender or work with non-indigenous companies for economic development and employment. I learned a lot from your podcast.<\/p>\n
Difficult to note were the specifics of an action study. Commented in point four, \u201cso more investigation is needed to understand why more indigenous contract opportunities did not happen. Was the value of the credits under the tender not high enough to entice non-indigenous companies to partner with indigenous businesses? Or did the quotes from the indigenous community owned business not offer enough value?\u201d Both sounded like great potential action study questions.<\/p>\n
Point five mentions there is a new model developed by some indigenous companies that operate wholly independently and have created opportunities by sub-contracting jobs such as safety flagging and an expertise in operations management might be needed. Perhaps another opportunity for an action study is understanding the barriers and successes of one independent sub-contractor.<\/p>\n
The nine-minute mark introduced possible subject matter to study. Discussed was a survey to the government, indigenous communities and construction companies to understand what has and has not worked to date. The second question was to review best practices across Canada. Both are great ideas, and important to study, however the lens seems to be a little too wide for an action study. Plano-Clarke and Creswell discuss \u201cthe problem in an action research study is one that is being faced by a single practitioner or a single organization\u201d (Plano-Clark & Creswell, 2015, p. 431). An important concept from Plano-Clark and Creswell (2015) is \u201cwith an emphasis on self-reflection and learning, practitioners also choose to conduct action research to advance their own professional development as an important component of addressing local problems (p. 434). Personally, I feel that as servant leaders who are passionate about our practice, it is hard to narrow the lens to very focused, local issues as we want to help solve problems for a wider audience.<\/p>\n
You raise a lot of great questions based on your extensive knowledge of the subject matter. If you were to prioritize which question in your practice intrigued you the most, or what question if you had the answer to would positively affect the most people, what would it be? Could you design an action study to get the answer to that one question?<\/p>\n
Plano-Clark, V., & Creswell, J. (2015). Understanding research: A consumer\u2019s guide<\/em> (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" https:\/\/anchor.fm\/kwantlen-brenda\/episodes\/The-state-of-indigenous-procurement-in-British-Columbia-e2hprl. What comes across is your passion about your work and the subject matter of Indigenous procurement in BC. You are clear about what the problem is in your local setting and discuss what has worked and what has not worked. Listed are five issues that indigenous procurement struggles with in order that indigenous companies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs591","category-unit-8","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/charliemable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}