Representative Bureaucracy Practices in Canada

Today, almost all societies are composed of different people due to factors such as ethnicity, language, religion, culture and color in addition to disadvantaged groups, in particular women and disabled people. The ability of these people to continue their daily lives in the society, to meet their basic needs depends on their ability to participate in working life with other people in equal conditions and opportunities. In order to manage the increasing diversity of workforce parallel to the diversity in the social structure, it has been revealed that countries should make some special arrangements regarding the working life in terms of the public sector. At this point, the concept of representing the general structure of the society emerged in bureaucracy. Representative bureaucracy has developed on issues such as having equal opportunities in representation of minorities and disadvantaged groups in the bureaucracy, prohibiting all forms of discrimination other than merit in recruitment. In this way, it was emphasized that everyone's participation in the services to be made to the public will be ensured, equal public service can be given to everyone and the separation between those who benefit from the service can be prevented. In this study, it is tried to explain the concept of representative bureaucracy which represents the general structure of the society in bureaucracy and the development and applications of representative bureaucracy in the Canadian bureaucratic system which is one of the successful examples of this