ABSTRACT

Working women who fulfil multiple roles face demands which test their resilience. The purpose of this research paper is to report on how postgraduate studies in executive coaching at a South African Business School, had a spill-over effect that assisted women with their resilience in their triple roles of business leaders, mothers at home and postgraduate students at university. Eight women in these triple roles were chosen from a class of postgraduate students studying towards a master’s degree in executive coaching. This qualitative study employed Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to analyse their lived experiences using a combination of individual semi-structured interviews and excerpts from their reflective journals. Studying coaching gave participants valuable external resources (techniques, tools and new competency skills), which in turn built their internal resources (self-esteem, confidence and new perspectives) that led to increased resilience. In addition, the positive spillover effects from their postgraduate coaching studies strengthened their resilience in their other roles, while negative spillover effects had the opposite effect.

摘要

担当多种角色的职业女性面临测试其弹性的要求。本研究报告的目的是报告南非商学院高管教练课程的研究生学习如何产生溢出效应，从而帮助女性在企业领导者，家庭母亲和研究生中扮演的三重角色具有韧性。大学。从一类研究生中选出了八位担任三重角色的妇女，他们都攻读了高级教练的硕士学位。这项定性研究使用解释性现象学分析法，通过结合个人半结构式访谈和反思期刊的摘录来分析他们的生活经历。学习教练可以为参与者提供宝贵的外部资源（技术，工具和新的能力技能），这反过来建立了他们的内部资源（自尊，信心和新观点），从而增强了抵御能力。此外，他们的研究生教练研究显示出积极的外溢效应增强了他们在其他角色上的适应力，而消极的外溢效应则产生了相反的效果。