Helping People Change by Ellen Van Oosten & Melvin L. Smith & Richard Boyatzis

Author:Ellen Van Oosten & Melvin L. Smith & Richard Boyatzis [Ellen Van Oosten]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

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In a study of 495 women in engineering and science, researchers Kathleen Buse and Diana Bilimoria at Case Western Reserve University found that women who persisted in these careers often have a personal vision. The personal vision included their profession but wasn’t limited to it. Having a vision enabled them to overcome the bias, barriers, and discrimination they encountered in their workplaces. The findings validated previous studies that self-efficacy, hope, and optimism are important elements of an individual’s personal vision and core identity and necessary for that vision to be effective. Having clarity around the ideal self positively affected the women’s work engagement, and work engagement directly affected the women’s commitment to remain in an engineering field.

Source: K. Buse and D. Bilimoria, “Personal Vision: Enhancing Work Engagement and the Retention of Women in the Engineering Profession,” Frontiers in Psychology 5, article 1400 (2014), doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01400.

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