The Roles of Power, Passing, and Surface Acting in the Workplace Relationships of Female Leaders With Disability
研究通过20个访谈，揭示身体残疾的女性管理者在职场中如何通过伪装和表面表现来应对权力关系，并解释为何残疾人在领导力文献中不可见。
This article describes how female managers with physical impairment negotiate their relationships in the workplace. It locates discussion of physical impairment and disability within an Interactional Model of Disability. Drawing on 20 interviews, this research identifies the factors that are central to the experience of female managers with disability in the workplace, including power, passing, and surface acting. When dealing with others who had power over them (such as their superiors), the leaders adopted approaches such as passing, in an attempt to minimize the visibility of both their impairment and their disability. This involved the leaders using surface acting to present an optimistic demeanor even when their actual feelings were very different. It will be argued that the use of surface acting and the reliance on passing begins to explain why people with disability are invisible in the workplace leadership literature and why this is damaging to diversity agendas in organizations.