Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations

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

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.

• Diversity Management
• Gender Identity
• Gender Management
• Human Resources
• LGBT

“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) 

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

  Thomas Köllen

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.

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