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Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations

Global Perspectives on LGBT Workforce Diversity

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Köllen

    1. Dept of Mgmt, Vienna Univ of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria

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  • Offers insight into workplace issues of LGBT employees and goes considerably beyond existent literature on the topic
  • Researchers of LGBT diversity in organizations can now find different perspectives in one single book, on which they can build for future research
  • Provides insights from all over the world (including South America, Africa, continental Europe and Asia) and avoids the predominant focus on Anglo-American countries in existing literature
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Intersexuality and Trans-Identities within the Diversity Management Discourse

    • Thomas Köllen
    Pages 1-20

  3. Queering the Gender Binary: Understanding Transgender Workplace Experiences

    • Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood, Jennica Webster
    Pages 21-42

  4. I Am the Man for the Job: The Challenges of Coming Out as a Female-to-Male Transgender in the Indian Organizational Space

    • Animesh Bahadur, Kunal Kamal Kumar
    Pages 43-61

  5. A Systematic Literature Review on Trans* Careers and Workplace Experiences

    • Ciarán McFadden, Marian Crowley-Henry
    Pages 63-81

  6. Transgenderism, Sex Reassignment Surgery and Employees’ Job-Satisfaction

    • Nick Drydakis
    Pages 83-99

  7. Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender Employees in Australia

    • Tiffany Jones
    Pages 101-116

  8. On the Necessity of Including Gender in Spain’s List of Prohibited Bases of Discrimination

    • Salvador Peran
    Pages 117-132

  9. Transgender Rights in Canada: Legal, Medical and Labour Union Activities

    • Gerald Hunt, Michael Pelz
    Pages 133-147

  10. Visibility and the Workplace Experiences of Trans Persons in the United States

    • Todd Brower
    Pages 149-166

  11. Transgender Individuals in Asian Islamic Countries: An Overview of Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Issues in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Malaysia

    • Abdullah Al Mamun, Mariano L. M. Heyden, Qaiser Rafique Yasser
    Pages 167-180

  12. Religious Workplaces: The Joys, Trials and Tribulations of LGBT Clergy

    • Eric M. Rodriguez, Chana Etengoff
    Pages 181-196

  13. Discrimination and Marginalization of LGBT Workers in Thailand

    • Busakorn Suriyasarn
    Pages 197-215

  14. Silence Speaks in the Workplace: Uncovering the Experiences of LGBT Employees in Turkey

    • Emir Ozeren, Zeki Ucar, Ethem Duygulu
    Pages 217-232

  15. LGBT Employees in the Hungarian Labor Market

    • Judit Takács
    Pages 233-252

  16. Gay Men and Male-to-Female Transgender Persons in Chile: An Exploratory Quantitative Study on Stigma, Discrimination, Victimization, Happiness and Social Well-Being

    • Jaime Barrientos, Manuel Cárdenas, Fabiola Gómez, Mónica Guzmán
    Pages 253-270

  17. Experiences of LGBT Microaggressions in the Workplace: Implications for Policy

    • M. Paz Galupo, Courtney A. Resnick
    Pages 271-287

  18. Experiences of Non-Heterosexual and Trans Youth on Career Choice and in the Workplace

    • Jukka Lehtonen
    Pages 289-306

  19. Passing in Corporate India: Problematizing Disclosure of Homosexuality at the Workplace

    • Rahul Mitra, Vikram Doctor
    Pages 307-320

  20. Daily Work Out?!: The Relationship Between Self-Representation, Degree of Openness About One’s Gay or Lesbian Identity, and Psychological Stress in the Workplace

    • Florian Meinhold, Dominic Frohn
    Pages 321-338
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About this book

Over the last decade workforce diversity has attracted much scientific attention. Given the shortage of literature on issues related to homosexual, bisexual and transgender employees, compared to other facets of workforce diversity, this book opens up new perspectives on this issue. Emphasis is placed on the equal consideration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Thus the predominance of lesbian and gay issues in LGBT research (and practice), will be contrasted by an explicit consideration of the unique experiences, stressors and related needs of bisexual and transgender employees. Contributions provide deeper insights into the differing experiences the whole spectrum of LGBT employees make in the workplace in different national and occupational contexts. Furthermore, the collection offers contextualized insights for evaluating and conceptualizing organizational initiatives aiming at a higher level of inclusion for LGBT employees.

Reviews

“This volume is a must-have for researchers studying sexual orientation and gender identity in organizations. It is also a must-have for practitioners of various types, including line managers, diversity managers, human resource managers and executives. … this book is a comprehensive reference in terms of studying sexual orientation and gender identity diversity as well as managing sexual orientation and gender identity diversity in organizations.” (Shaun Pichler, Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, Vol. 36 (2), 2017) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Mgmt, Vienna Univ of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Köllen

About the editor

Dr. Thomas Köllen is assistant professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations (Department of Management) at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). He has studied in Germany (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena), Italy (Università di Torino), and Austria (WU Vienna). He was a Doc Team Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2009) and a Visiting Scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (2007) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niteroi, Brazil (2012). In 2016 he is a visiting professor at Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Dr. Köllen’s academic research interests include business ethics; issues of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation in management and organizations; and national identities and nationalism in the workplace.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations

  • Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives on LGBT Workforce Diversity

  • Editors: Thomas Köllen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29623-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29621-0Published: 10 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80611-2Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29623-4Published: 25 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 560

  • Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Gender Studies, Organization, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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