Meredith A. Newman

ORCID: 0000-0002-7228-2022
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Research Areas
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
  • Hip disorders and treatments
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Human Resource and Talent Management
  • Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
  • Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation

Florida International University
2001-2025

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
2012-2024

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
2012-2024

University of Oxford
2014-2024

University of Illinois at Springfield
2004-2006

Oxford Brookes University
2005

American Society for Public Administration
2004

Washington State University Vancouver
1997-2003

Washington State University
1996-2002

University of Central Florida
1993

Job segregation—the tendency for men and women to work in different occupations—is often cited as the reason that women's wages lag men's. But this begs question: What is it about jobs causes them pay less? We argue emotional labor offers missing link explanation. Tasks require emotive thought natural women, such caring, negotiating, empathizing, smoothing troubled relationships, working behind scenes enable cooperation, are required components of many jobs. Excluded from job descriptions...

10.1111/j.1540-6210.2004.00373.x article EN Public Administration Review 2004-05-01

Impaired mobility in multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with high-energy costs and effort when walking, gait abnormalities, poor endurance fatigue. This repeated measures trial blinded assessments investigated the effect of treadmill walking at an aerobic training intensity 16 adults MS. The intervention consisted 12 sessions up to 30 minutes (TT), 55–85% age-predicted maximum heart rate. primary outcome measure was effort, measured by oxygen consumption (mL/kg per metre), during...

10.1177/1352458506071169 article EN Multiple Sclerosis Journal 2007-01-01

Representative bureaucracy and female parity at all levels in public organizations are attainable yet unrealized goals. Many years have elapsed since the passage of Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action legislation, women continue to be underrepresented top organizational hierarchy. Frederickson's (1990) compound theory social equity delineates equality into block segmented. Block is a holistic approach concept that views overall representational concerns among groups within an...

10.2307/976732 article EN Public Administration Review 1994-05-01

Feedback from graduates often indicates that their training failed to adequately prepare them for the human processes involved in administration and delivery of public services. Although provided with cognitive skills, they are left on own acquire an appreciation for, develop skill in, nuanced emotive skills. This is especially case who work service-delivery programs emotionally intense, such as disaster services, child protective domestic violence, emergency medical corrections, law...

10.1080/15236803.2010.12001590 article EN Journal of Public Affairs Education 2010-06-01

ABSTRACT Allan Rosenbaum was a dedicated public administration professor and administrator who made significant contributions to the field over his six‐decade career. He held various academic administrative positions played leadership roles in professional associations, becoming global champion of administration. known for passion, humanity, decency, friendship, which were evident way he nurtured those worked with him. In this remembrance piece, we highlight Allan's impact on many...

10.1111/puar.13950 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Public Administration Review 2025-03-26

Abstract The implementation of equal opportunity policies across governmental bureaucracies has not uniformly advanced the interests men, women and minorities therein. This paper examines this common occurrence unequal outcomes associated with policies. Political scientists have an abiding interest in employment affirmative action procedures agencies because these are a principal means achieving demographic substantive representation government. We find prevailing approach to analyzing...

10.1300/j014v22n03_01 article EN Women & Politics 2001-04-30

In an era when greater responsiveness is required of government workers, the authors test whether there a blind spot in employee performance appraisals that prevents rewarding most effective workers. Emotional labor—work relational and involves manipulation expression emotions—is labor intensive many public service workers if they are to perform their jobs well. The hypothesize rationality, or “left brain” work, remains privileged whereas work marginalized unrewarded. To investigate...

10.1177/0275074005280642 article EN The American Review of Public Administration 2006-04-27

What factors influence the likelihood that a federal worker will receive unwanted sexual attention? Who is most likely to be accused of harassment? workers' perceptions effectiveness agency harassment training? Using raw data file U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's recent survey on harassment, authors find characteristics are principal attention and whether an agency's training perceived favorably. Contextual demonstrate lesser influence. Their conclusions lead believe reevaluation...

10.1111/1540-6210.00309 article EN Public Administration Review 2003-06-12

Barriers to women's advancement in the public sector continue be very real. Debate has shifted from concern about equal employment opportunity and access entry- middle-level leadership positions an examination of glass ceiling phenomenon, which prevents many women reaching upper level management positions. Using a conceptual analytical framework developed for my doctoral dissertation data generated survey 253 administrators Florida State government, this paper compares experiences those men...

10.1177/027507409302300404 article EN The American Review of Public Administration 1993-12-01

Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, this study examines influences harassment in federal workplace. We investigate effect of workers’sociodemographic characteristics, aspects their daily work environment (the sex supervisor and female/male ratio coworkers), agency location. Drawing a variety theoretical models addressing limitation previous study, we assess whether how differ for men women. Not only does likelihood women, but...

10.1111/j.1540-6210.2004.00417.x article EN Public Administration Review 2004-11-01

Women's work experiences continue to be characterized by metaphors such as glass ceilings, walls, sticky floors, and trap doors (Guy, 1995) To what extent do the implementation of flexble workplace policies personnel practices improve women's experience? This article attempts answer this question it relates utilization family-friendly within federal cabinet-level departments The authors examine how Clinton administration's initiatives are being operationalized in several departments,...

10.1177/0734371x9901900303 article EN Review of Public Personnel Administration 1999-07-01

Objective: To identify if a tailored rehabilitation programme is more effective than standard practice at improving function in patients undergoing metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Specialist orthopaedic hospital. Subjects: 80 men with median age of 56 years. Interventions: Tailored post-operative physiotherapy compared physiotherapy. Main Outcomes: Primary outcome – Oxford Hip Score (OHS), Secondary outcomes: disability and...

10.1177/0269215513478437 article EN Clinical Rehabilitation 2013-04-10

Musculoskeletal shoulder problems are common after breast cancer treatment. There is some evidence to suggest that early postoperative exercise safe and may improve function. We describe the development delivery of a complex intervention for evaluation within randomised controlled trial (RCT), designed target prevention musculoskeletal surgery (The Prevention Shoulder Problems Trial; PROSPER). A pragmatic, multicentre RCT compare clinical cost-effectiveness best practice usual care versus...

10.1186/s12913-018-3280-x article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2018-06-18

The Internet is used increasingly for health information and patient support. Online users gravitate to websites that feature experiences. However, experiential accounts may mislead if they are unrepresentative. quality of remains unexplored. Obtaining user feedback online can be problematic. This study explored views www.dipex.org/arthritis, a website based on, featuring, clips from interviews about experiences rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Thirty-seven rheumatology outpatients viewed the site...

10.1177/1460458209102974 article EN Health Informatics Journal 2009-05-27

Osteoporosis and vertebral fracture can have a considerable impact on an individual's quality of life. There is increasing evidence that physiotherapy including manual techniques exercise interventions may important treatment role. This pragmatic randomised controlled trial will investigate the clinical cost-effectiveness two different approaches for people with osteoporosis fracture, in comparison to usual care. Six hundred clinically diagnosed be recruited randomly allocated one three...

10.1186/1745-6215-15-22 article EN cc-by Trials 2014-01-14

A total of 25,000 people in the UK have osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF). Evidence suggests that physiotherapy may an important treatment role. The objective was to investigate clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness two different programmes for with OVF compared a single session. This prospective, adaptive, multicentre, assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial (RCT) nested qualitative health economic studies. based 21 NHS departments. participants were symptomatic OVF. Seven...

10.3310/hta23440 article EN publisher-specific-oa Health Technology Assessment 2019-08-01
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