Winners and finalists of the 2022 Indigenous Governance Awards talk about the importance of developing the next generation of leaders and how succession planning takes place in their organisation...
Issues that benefit from making culturally legitimate rules
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01 Understanding governance
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02 Culture and governance
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03 Getting Started
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04 Leadership
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05 Governing the organisation
- 5.0 Governing the organisation
- 5.1 Roles, responsibilities and rights of a governing body
- 5.2 Accountability: what is it, to whom and how?
- 5.3 Decision making by the governing body
- 5.4 Governing finances and resources
- 5.5 Communicating
- 5.6 Future planning
- 5.7 Building capacity and confidence for governing bodies
- 5.8 Case Studies
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06 Rules and policies
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07 Management and staff
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08 Disputes and complaints
- 8.0 Disputes and complaints
- 8.1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous approaches
- 8.2 Core principles and skills for dispute and complaint resolution
- 8.3 Disputes and complaints about governance
- 8.4 Your members: Dealing with disputes and complaints
- 8.5 Organisations: dealing with internal disputes and complaints
- 8.6 Practical guidelines and approaches
- 8.7 Case Studies
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09 Governance for nation rebuilding
- Governance Stories
- Glossary
- Useful links
- Acknowledgements
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Issues that benefit from making culturally legitimate rules
06 Rules and policies
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- Membership—rules for who can and cannot be a member of the organisation.
- Representation—rules for who is eligible to sit on the governing body, and how people are elected to it.
- Conduct—rules for how the governing body, managers and staff behave.
- Decision making—rules for how accountable consensus-based decisions should be made.
- Meetings—rules for how and when meetings are held and for addressing culturally sensitive issues.
- Communication—rules for how members will be consulted and kept informed.
- Mediation—rules for how disputes and complaints will be resolved.
- Administration—rules to enable greater cultural flexibility in employment and human resources conditions.
- Planning—rules that support future cultural vision and priorities.
- Gender roles—rules for the different knowledge and leadership responsibilities of men and women.