Organizational Executives’ Perspectives on Cultural Humility and Diversity

Author

• Lynette Piggee-PineroFollow

Date of Award

2026

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

Department

Leadership and Innovation

First Advisor

Fred Estes

First Committee Member

Timothy Howard

Second Committee Member

Jon Wedding

Abstract

The purpose of this action-oriented dissertation was to understand how executives perceive their own cultural humility and how their perceptions impact diversity promotion in the workplace. This study used action research to examine the perspectives of executives on their own cultural humility and how cultural humility promotes diversity. This study included data collected from interviews with eight executives. Findings from the study revealed that executives perceived their own cultural humility as evident in a commitment to learning about others, their ability to suspend their own biases, and their commitment to ongoing learning. The findings were also that executives expressed connections between cultural humility and promoting diversity. Executives demonstrated cultural humility through collaborative decision-making, encouraging employee voice, and equitable hiring processes, as well as respecting other cultures, learning about others, and including others in organizational spaces. Executives differed on hiring based on ability compared to considering diversity and often provided concepts of cultural humility compared to specific strategies used. The findings have implications for future actions at the site of study, including amending policies and training related to leaders’ understanding of cultural humility and addressing systemic barriers to diversity in the workplace. These findings have implications for increasing executives’ knowledge of cultural humility and developing systemic changes to promote workplace diversity.

Pages

147

Recommended Citation

Piggee-Pinero, Lynette (2026). Organizational Executives’ Perspectives on Cultural Humility and Diversity. University of the Pacific, Dissertation. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/4328