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Hope beyond the current struggle : how female African American healthcare leaders cope with discrimination in the workplace / Jennifer Marie Bailey-Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey-Jackson, Jennifer Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American studies.
- Health care management.
- Cultural resources management.
- African Americans.
- Racism.
- Racial discrimination.
- Slavery.
- Travel.
- Women.
- Spirituality.
- Bias.
- Educational leadership.
- Womens studies.
- Chief learning officer--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Chief learning officer.
- Local Subjects:
- African American studies.
- Health care management.
- Cultural resources management.
- African Americans.
- Racism.
- Racial discrimination.
- Slavery.
- Travel.
- Women.
- Spirituality.
- Bias.
- Educational leadership.
- Womens studies.
- Chief learning officer--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Chief learning officer.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 83-03B.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Leadership is a sacred stewardship. Women leaders bring collaboration to this stewardship, and African American women leaders bring a certain savoir faire to their hallowed leadership responsibilities. However, research is needed to appreciate the unique stresses that female African American leaders experience in their leadership roles. Stress is harmful to overall health, well-being, and leadership effectiveness. This dissertation investigated the distinctive stresses and coping resources that empower African American women to manage individual discrimination, gendered racial discrimination, institutional racism, and encounters with white privilege in the workplace. This dissertation also investigated if hope, separate from religion and spirituality, is a coping resource that these leaders use to protect themselves in sexist and racist contaminated work environments. This research study utilized a qualitative phenomenological research design with a narrative methodology, interviewing 20 female African American senior and executive healthcare leaders to understand how they described their experiences with discrimination at work. The results revealed that African American female healthcare leaders encountered daily multilayered discrimination at work. The results also revealed that the participants engaged in coping resources daily to manage their emotions, work relationships and work environments to successfully navigate working in White space. The participants in the study specifically depended on the coping toolset of faith, punctuated with hope to circumnavigate their toxic work environments.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: B.
- Advisors: McKee, Annie; Committee members: Richardson, Marsha; Stevenson, Howard.
- Department: Chief Learning Officer.
- Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798538113057
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
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