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Research Initiation: A Study on the Intersection of Race and Gender on Leadership Formation of Engineering Students

研究启动：种族和性别对工科学生领导力形成的交叉研究

基本信息

批准号：
1738132
负责人：
Carmen Lilley
金额：
$ 19.98万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738132&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Research Initiation Study Intersection Race

项目摘要

Development of leadership skills by undergraduate engineering students is a key to successful careers in today's technology industries. Increasing diversity and inclusion in leadership is also critical for long-term success of technology companies as they increasingly become global enterprises. Yet, how to achieve this greater diversity of leadership continues to prove challenging in both engineering education and industry. This research will serve as a foundational study that explores how identity shapes the leadership beliefs of a diverse population of undergraduate engineering students. The influence of identity, such as race and gender, along with the effects of the intersection of identities on students' beliefs will also be studied. The aim is to identify the factors and create a model of these factors informing how students view leaders, leadership, and the student's own ability to lead. The results of this mapping will contribute to the research and education communities' efforts to train a diverse community of engineers as leaders in industry by creating a foundation model of factors that affect beliefs about students' leadership skills. The ultimate goal of this project is to create new educational approaches for increasing students' belief that they can be leaders. Intersectionality theory, used in this study, is based on the premise that individuals have multiple identities and that the intersection of these identities shape an individual's experiences. It also makes use of self-efficacy, the belief a person has that they are able to achieve a defined goal. Thus, one of the research aims is to include a broad range of identities by recruiting from a diverse pool of undergraduate engineering students. This will make it possible to probe students' leadership self-efficacy and elucidate how intersectionality of identities, namely race and gender, affects this self-efficacy. The strength of an individual's self-efficacy has been shown to strongly correlate with the sustained pursuit by an individual to successfully achieve their defined goal, while overcoming challenges to achieve it. The proposed research aims to identify students' beliefs about leaders, leadership, and their own abilities as leaders, while identifying how the intersectionality of their identities affects these beliefs. While there is a strong body of research on the impact a single identity, such as race/ethnicity or gender, has on engineering formation or leadership development, the nuances of the intersection of identities on leadership formation of engineering students still remains a significant gap in knowledge. This gap impacts the long-term retention and promotion of a diverse community of engineers and their ascension to leadership roles in industry. The research is structured as a qualitative study to analyze the leadership self-efficacy of engineering undergraduate students. Students will be interviewed on their leadership beliefs and a qualitative analysis will be performed using the constant comparative method. The results will be used to create a conditional matrix of leadership self-efficacy of undergraduate engineering students, where identities and intersection of identities are integrated. Finally, a model of leadership self-efficacy and factors that affect this self-efficacy will be developed from the analysis results.

培养工程本科生的领导技能是当今科技行业取得成功职业生涯的关键。随着科技公司日益成为全球化企业，领导层的多样性和包容性的增强对于科技公司的长期成功也至关重要。然而，如何实现领导力的更大多样性在工程教育和工业界仍然具有挑战性。这项研究将作为一项基础研究，探讨身份如何塑造不同群体的工程本科生的领导信念。还将研究种族和性别等身份的影响，以及身份交叉对学生信仰的影响。目的是确定这些因素并创建这些因素的模型，告知学生如何看待领导者、领导力以及学生自己的领导能力。该映射的结果将有助于研究和教育界通过创建影响学生领导技能信念的因素的基础模型来培训多元化的工程师社区作为行业领导者。该项目的最终目标是创造新的教育方法，增强学生对自己可以成为领导者的信念。本研究中使用的交叉理论基于这样的前提：个人具有多重身份，并且这些身份的交集塑造了个人的经历。它还利用自我效能，即一个人相信自己能够实现既定目标的信念。因此，研究目标之一是通过从不同的本科工程专业学生中招募来涵盖广泛的身份。这将使探究学生的领导自我效能并阐明身份的交叉性（即种族和性别）如何影响这种自我效能成为可能。事实证明，个人自我效能的强度与个人对成功实现其既定目标并克服挑战以实现目标的持续追求密切相关。拟议的研究旨在确定学生对领导者、领导力以及他们自己作为领导者的能力的信念，同时确定他们身份的交叉性如何影响这些信念。尽管有大量关于单一身份（例如种族/民族或性别）对工程形成或领导力发展的影响的研究，但身份交叉对工程学生领导力形成的细微差别仍然是一个重大的知识空白。这种差距影响了多元化工程师社区的长期保留和晋升以及他们在行业中领导角色的提升。该研究是一项定性研究，旨在分析工程本科生的领导自我效能感。学生将接受关于他们的领导信念的访谈，并使用不断比较的方法进行定性分析。结果将用于创建工科本科生领导自我效能感的条件矩阵，其中整合了身份和身份的交集。最后，根据分析结果建立领导自我效能感模型以及影响这种自我效能感的因素。