Reading literature to support your research topic prior to your doctoral residency is a key to the successful completion of your Prospectus PowerPoint. You will need to identify the problem space and the need for future research from the extant scholarly literature (peer-reviewed literature published in the last 3-5 years) to engage with the residency activities. Using your prospectus PowerPoint that you began in the first residency, post an updated statement of your proposed problem space and the need for future research from the extant scholarly literature. Consider your existing problem statement, theoretical framework, and research questions. How do you use this information to defend your research design, data collection, and data analysis plan? Explain.

Current Problem Statement from Residency I:

It is not known how Black senior level women executives in healthcare tell stories of navigatingintersectional invisibility in the workplace.

Theoretical Framework:

Smith et al's (2019) Paradoxical Effects of Intersectional Invisibility on the Career Experiences in the Workplace Theory reveals that intersectionally invisible groups experience invisibility in both positive and negative ways.

•  Outsider-Within Status: Identity situations known as "outsider-within" are linked to particular social injustice histories. The term "outsider-within" refers to a person who has a certain knowledge/power relationship, one in which they learn about or if a dominating group without acquiring all the power given to members of that group.
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•  Balancing Benign and Hostile Intersectional Invisibility: The benign intersectional invisibility hypothesis is represented by the idea that gender and race cancel each other out, whereas the hostile intersectional invisibility hypothesis is based on the idea that gender and race have the opposite effect.
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•  Agentic Visibility Tactics: Credible visibility is the idea that one is regarded as a trustworthy leader by others.
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•  Career Trajectories: The term "career trajectory" describes the path a person's career takes as they transition through various jobs, organizations, and phases of their professional life.

 

RQ1: How do Black senior level women executives in healthcare tell stories of navigating intersectional invisibility in the workplace?