Research Catalog

Title

Women and leadership in health care : the journey to authenticity and power / Catherine Robinson-Walker.

Author

Robinson-Walker, Catherine, 1946-

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xviii, 227 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Written for health care executives and managers of both sexes, this book explores the vital issues that surround the gender disparity in health care leadership. It answers the vital questions concerning how gender affects health care leadership. It reveals how to create a diverse, creative, and resourceful leadership pool. And it gives women the tools they need to break the glass ceiling.

Subject

• Women in medicine
• Health services administrators
• Women executives
• Women
• Executives
• Leadership
• Women physicians
• Prejudices
• Women
• Administrative Personnel
• Leadership
• Physicians, Women
• Career Mobility
• Prejudice
• executives
• physicians
• women (female humans)
• Women physicians
• Prejudices
• Executives
• Health services administrators
• Women executives
• Women in medicine
• Heilberuf
• Berufserfolg
• Geschlechtsunterschied
• Gesundheitswesen
• Führungskraft

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Coming to Terms with Gender -- 1. The Paradox of Gender -- 2. Gender, Values, and Leadership -- 3. Experiencing Gender on the Job -- 4. Coming to Terms with Gender's Impact -- pt. II. Antidotes for Effectiveness -- 5. Antidote 1: Defusing Gender's Role in Conflict, Negotiations, and Power -- 6. Antidote 2: Using Communication as a Bridge -- 7. Antidote 3: Career Renewal Strategies -- 8. Antidote 4: Nurturing Ourselves, Mentoring Others -- pt. III. Embracing Authenticity and Power -- 9. Gender's Role in Transformation and Authenticity -- 10. From Paradox to Power.

ISBN

• 0787909335
• 9780787909338

LCCN

98058078

OCLC

• ocm40444569
• 40444569
• SCSB-739689

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library