The Glass Cliff: Precarious Jobs and Psychological Safety [Video]

People work in stressful and toxic professional environments every day, but the ways in which individuals experience those PRECARIOUS jobs varies considerably depending on an organization’s accountability structures as well as UNDERLYING expectations of leadership within those settings.

Women leaders who work in care-giving professions such as teaching, health care, and faith-based ministry, face additional OBSTACLES due to unsustainable expectations of what it means to a be a “servant leader” and ingrained gender expectations of what it means to be a “self-sacrificial woman.”

Known as the “glass cliff,” this double bind expectation within unstable organizations compels women leaders to make important decisions around what they choose to tolerate and when to bring their leadership abilities elsewhere.

Resources:
Ryan, M. K., & Haslam, S. A. (2007). The glass cliff: Exploring the dynamics surrounding the appointment of women to precarious leadership positions. Academy of Management Review 32(2), 549-572.

Eagly A.H., Karau S.J. (2002). Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. Psychological Review, 109(3), 573-98.

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