Resilience in the Margins: Understanding resilience strategies of disempowered and marginalised senior leaders in the workplace.
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Abstract
Systemic Review This paper aims to critically evaluate the resilience strategies used by racialised leaders to enable them to overcome the barriers they face. A systematic search to identify qualitative studies was conducted across three electronic databases: PsychINFO, Business Source Premier and Web of Science. Thirteen studies met the inclusion criteria, from USA, Canada and UK and several industries. These were quality assessed and thematically synthesised. Three domains were identified as integral to understanding this area: (1) racialised micro-aggressions; (2) cost of fighting; and (3) resilience strategies used to overcome the micro-aggressions. Results suggest modern covert racism is evident within organisations. In the face of this, racialised leaders have developed individual and collective strategies to enable them to be resilient. Although some racialised individuals make it to leadership positions, this comes at a cost (health, psychological and emotional) to the individual. Organisations need to shift the burden of responsibility from the individual to address the prevailing Whiteness embedded within organisational systems. <br> Empirical project The study sought to understand what resilience strategies senior female leaders in the clinical psychology profession use. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 senior female clinical psychology leaders. Transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Three themes were generated: (1) Toxic Culture (2) Surviving within the system (3) Striving for change. The findings suggest that toxic work cultures are a challenge for senior female clinical psychologist leaders. They predominantly used individual resilience strategies to overcome these. However, these can come at an individual cost i.e. emotional burnout, low mood, stress and sleeping difficulties. Collective resilience strategies were used less often and were not focused on collectively changing the system. Collective resilience using critical consciousness model could enable lasting system and cultural change.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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