Publications: Healthcare & Diversity
Myers, V.L. (study in progress). Lessons learned about micro-behaviors of leaders who have facilitated equitable ascent of African Americans in elite and executive roles.
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Myers, V.L. (2021). Inspiring Inclusion: What is the evidence for a faith-based a to leadership development. Chapter in Blessed Are Those Who Ask Questions. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.
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Myers, V.L., Griffith, J.R.,Banaszak-Holl, J., Raghunathan, T., Wooten, L.P., Zhu, J. (2016). Organizational Climate and Diversity Management in Southeast Michigan Hospitals. Research Report. Click here to download
Myers, V.L (2015). Diversity Ideologies in Action: Energizing Renewal and Excellence in Healthcare. A chapter in KD Elsbach, A.B. Kayes and D.C. Kayes, eds., Contemporary Organizational Behavior: From Ideas to Action, Prentice Hall.
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PD Jacobson, V.L. Myers, JG Calhoun, and JE Platt (2012). Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety Net Services, in MA Hall and S Rosenbaum,
eds., The Health Care Safety Net, Rutgers University Press.
Myers, V.L. & Wooten, L.P (2011). Generative Change in Health Care Organizations: Co-Creating Health To Reduce Health Disparities, in J. Dutton and K. Golden-Biddle eds., Exploring Positive Social Change and Organizations, Routledge-Taylor Francis Press.
​Jacobson, P.D., Myers, V.L., Calhoun, J.G. and Platt, J.E. (2011). Operational and Organizational Efficencies in Michigan’s Health Care Safety Net Organizations, Final Project Report to the University of Michigan’s Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation.
Myers, V.L., Wooten, L.P., Banaszak-Holl, J., Griffith, J.R. (2011). Analyzing Diversity Management Practices in Southeast Michigan Hospitals. Technical Report to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation.
Myers, V.L. & Wooten, L.P (2009). The Transformational Power of a Mission Driven Strategy: Extraordinary Diversity Practices & Quality of Care in a Multi-State Healthcare System. Organization Dynamics, 38 (4):297-304.
Myers, V.L. (2009). Pilot of a Diversity Leadership Competency Course for graduate students in healthcare administration. Journal of Health Administration Education, 24 ( 4):273-300.
Myers, V.L. and Dreachslin, J.L. (2007). Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce: Challenge and Opportunity Journal of Healthcare Management, 52(5), 290.
Dreachslin, J.L. and Myers, V.L. (2007). A Systems Approach to Culturally Competent and Linguistically Appropriate Care. Journal of Healthcare Management, 52(4), 220.
Wallace, J.W., Myers, V.L. & Osai, E. (2004). Faith Matters: Race/Ethnicity, Religion and Substance Use in America." Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation Press.
Myers, V. L. (2003) Planning and Evaluating Faith-based Interventions: Closing the Theory-Practice Divide. The Role of Faith-based Organizations in the Social Welfare System – 2003 Spring Research Forum Working Papers. Independent Sector and the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute of Government and Independent Sector: Washington, D.C..
Myers, V. L. (2003). An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Faith-based Human Services: Identifying Latent Organizational, Social and Psychological Processes. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.