Karen Perham-Lippman

Eastern University

This is a unit within a course module titled "Inclusive Practices for the Workplace" which is part of a course titled "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility Skills". The course is designed to empower the practice and development of skills needed to model inclusive behaviors in the workplace and advocate for equitable change in...

Leadership diversity promotes inclusive decision-making, innovation, and sustainable performance. This chapter examines the relationship between corporate board diversity and social criteria under the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework, emphasizing gender parity on boards. ESG data are linked to one-fourth of the world’s professi...

: The global COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted women compared to men in the workplace, creating gender disparity associated with mental health. In occupational fields where women comprise nearly three quarters of the workforce, outcomes of increased depression and psychological distress have resulted, creating even greater gender disparity...

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, leaders in organizations everywhere had to adjust quickly to keep their followers as safe as possible and to ensure their organizations remained operational. 2022 reporting from the CDC showed 81,814,169 cases and 1,008,007 deaths in the United States due to COVID, and the Worldometer reported 490,527,831 cases...

The COVID-19 pandemic produced a number of shifts in the workforce and in the economy. One of these shifts was increased unpaid labor that many people, particularly women, were required to take on both inside and outside of work. Unpaid labor refers to obtaining food and essential supplies, cooking, caring for family and community members, general...

This quantitative research study considers the negative relationship of destructive leadership (DL) to follower psychological ownership (PO) and the organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) of altruism and civic virtue with additional examination of gender as a potential variable that differentiates that relationship within followers. The techno...

The Courage to say yes: aspiring to leadership teams as members of the out-group, how organizations can utilize LMX theory to integrate women and minorities into leadership teams. Can saying yes to leadership be a courageous expression? How can organizations utilize leader member exchange (LMX) theory to integrate women and minorities into leadersh...