Research

My research examines… 

Gender Bias

• The Gender Wage Gap Tipping Point (2025).  Harvard Business Review
• Examining the boundary conditions of tokenism:  Exploring tipping effects for within occupation gender wage gaps (2024). Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal

• Women in leadership face ageism at every age. (2023). Harvard Business Review
  • • Featured on:  Morning Joe, CBS News, Katie Couric Media, HuffPost, Business Insider, HuffPost (2), … 
• Never quite right: Identity factors affecting women leaders (2023). Human Resources Development Quarterly.
  • Why women leaders are “never quite right”. (2023).  Fast Company.
    • Featured in CNBC, Yahoo News, MT/Sprout Netherlands, …

• Cross industry comparison of gender bias experienced by women leaders. (2022). Personnel Review.
  • How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces. (2022).  Harvard Business Review.
    • Featured in: Fortune, Nation Africa, …

• Measures of gender bias affecting women in medicine. (2021). Advances in Health Care Management.
  • • Featured in: HealthLeaders Media

• Measuring the invisible: Development and multi-industry validation of the Gender Bias Scale for women leaders. (2020). Human Resource Development Quarterly.
  • New tool to measure gender bias in the workplace may help finally eliminate it. (2020). The Conversation.

• Advocating the use of threshold effects estimation: An illustration using the gender wage gap. (2020). Human Resource Development Quarterly.

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Social Identity & Identification

Healthcare:

• How to make leadership positions more enticing to primary care physicians. (2023). Harvard Business Review.
• Primary care physician leaders’ perspectives on opportunities and challenges in health care leadership: A qualitative study. (2022).  BMJ Leader.
• Engaging physicians in leadership: Motivations, challenges, and identity-based considerations. (2022). Journal of Healthcare Management.
  • • Featured in: Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care Newsletter, Faisel and Friends: A Primary Care Podcast, ACHE Canada, AcademyHealth Daily News

• Social identity and the prison health worker: Implications for practitioner satisfaction and turnover intentions. (2019). Health Care Management Review.
• Finding meaningful work in difficult circumstances:  A study of prison health workers. (2019).  Health Services Management Research.
• Voice of the clinician: The case of an Australian health system. (2017). Journal of Health Organization and Management.

Higher Education:

• How pretrial expectations and anticipated obstacles impact brand identification. (2016). Journal of Promotion Management.
• The role of satisfaction on alumni perceptions and supportive behaviors. (2015). Services Marketing Quarterly.
• Motivation for alumni donations: a social identity perspective on the role of branding in higher education. (2014). International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.
• Optimizing alumni engagement: The effect of brand identification on alumni donation behaviors. (2014). International Journal of Educational Management.
• Does brand identification transform alumni into university brand advocates?   (2014). International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing.

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Healthcare Workforce & Organization

• Do patient-provider therapeutic connections vary by race? A descriptive comparison of White, Black, and Hispanic/Latino patient experiences (2025). Journal of Healthcare Management.
• Workplace factors related to health care leader well-being in rural settings (2024).  Journal of Rural Health
• Primary care physician leadership in top ranked U.S. hospitals. (2023). Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
• Conceptual framework for integrating family caregivers into the health care team: A scoping review. (2022). Medical Care Research and Review. 
• Changes in career thinking and work intentions among academic physicians as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. (2022).  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
• Reconceptualizing family caregivers as part of the health care team. (2021). Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy.
• Hospital cultural competency and attributes of patient safety culture: A study of US hospitals. (2021). Journal of Patient Safety.
• Even superheroes need sleep: Facilitating recovery of healthcare professionals during times of COVID-19. (2021). Advances in Health Care Management.
• Addressing Evolving Patient Concerns around Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era. (2021). American Journal of Managed Care.
• COVID-19 and the primary care workforce: Adjusting to rapid change in new roles and settings. (2020). Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy.
• Hospital staffing patterns and safety culture perceptions: The mediating role of perceived teamwork and perceived handoffs. (2019). Health Care Management Review.
• Readmission rates and their impact on hospital financial performance: A study of Washington hospitals. (2019). INQUIRY.
• Extending the models of employee turnover to include external drivers such as client and industry factors: A multi-country, qualitative assessment. (2019). Preprints.
• Resource based view on safety culture’s influence on hospital performance: The moderating role of EHR implementation. (2018). Health Care Management Review.
• Journey toward evidence-based:  Seeking admission to formal program registries. (2016). Health Promotion Practice.

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Other Intrigues

Healthcare:

• Pivoting research in health care management in the context of COVID-19. (2023). Journal of Health Administration Education.
• Confronting Racism at Franklinville Regional Medical Center. (2022). In McAlearney, A.S. and Kovner, A.R., Health Services Management: A Case Study Approach, 12th Edition. Health Administration Press: Chicago, IL: In press.
• Theoretically speaking: A user’s guide to theory exposition in publishing health care management research. (2022). Journal of Health Administration Education.
• For your review: Insights from seasoned reviewers and editors on the peer-review process. (2019). Journal of Health Administration Education.

Higher Education:

• What do you expect? Low self-control predicts newcomer expectations. (2021). Journal of Education and Human Development.
• Examining college student retention: A closer look at low self-control. (2020). International Journal of Educational Management.
• Recalibrating our understanding of retention. (2017). Journal of College Student Retention.
• College choice and the university brand: Exploring the consumer decision framework. (2016). Higher Education.
• A novel low-cost indicator of student perseverance and its association with college student academic performance. (2018). Asian Social Science.

Nonprofits:

• Variation in motivations by running ability:  Using the theory of reasoned action to predict attitudes about running 5K races. (2014). Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events.
  • • Featured in:  Runners World
• The role of organizational identity in the YMCA rebrand of 2010.  (2013). Sociological Perspectives.

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