Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 521 g
Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization
Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 521 g
ISBN: 978-1-56023-546-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Find out how being more LGBT inclusive can increase your organization’s productivityand revenues!
Workplace diversity can provide creative strength and greater productivity regardless of the organization. Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, Third Edition presents a frank discussion about all the relevant aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace. The author reveals how to incorporate diversity in your organization to foster greater loyalty, greater understanding, and greater productivity.
Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, Third Edition is the latest edition of the National Library Award-winning guide that explains terms, provides strategies for implementation of policies and programs, and gives you practical tools to educate and inform employees about a workplace environment inclusive of diversity. While previous editions concentrated on the diversity of sexual orientation, this edition has been expanded and extensively updated to include the needs and issues of transgender people. Other updated information includes showing the advantages of creating an LGBT inclusive environment, discussing in-depth about the financial rewards of marketing an organization as being open to the LGBT community, and explaining the benefits of presenting these topics in public schools and higher education. Several appendices are included to provide additional resources divided into categories such as workplace education, transgender, marketing, family and the schools, legal, and business. The book also features a useful bibliography, an assessment tool to gauge sexual diversity in your organization, a guide for transitioning transsexuals, and another appendix that presents research and recommendations as to how school campuses can make themselves more inclusive and less discriminatory.
Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, Third Edition discusses:
- updated information on domestic partner benefits
- educating employees about sexual orientation and gender identity
- the latest information on non-discrimination policies
- effective employee networks and alliances
- sensitive issues that involve transgender people
- opportunities and benefits of marketing to the LGBT community
- internal and external outreach programs
- crucial tax and insurance information
- new information focused on LGBT youth and academia inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity
- and much more!
Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, Third Edition makes essential reading for human resource professionals; executives of every type of organization; LGBT employees involved with diversity efforts; affinity groups focused on orientation and/or gender identity; educators; students; and anyone interested in studying the role of sexual orientation or gender identification diversity in the workplace.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape
Dealing with What Is Now
It’s About All People
The Inherent Argument
What Do We Really Choose?
What’s Actually Changing
The Language Used in This Book
The Rest of This Book
It’s a Moving Target
Chapter 2. Strategies for Inclusion in the New World
What the Work Is For
Ground Rules for the Work
The Work
Tools and Techniques
Chapter 3. The Facts of the Matter
Important Terms
Coming Out: Individuals to Organizations and Back
Organizational Coming Out
Replacing Myths with Facts
Chapter 4. Meaningful and Effective Workplace Sexual Orientation Education
Diversity Education Must Be a Process
Three Questions
Implementation of Sexual Orientation Education in the Workplace
Chapter 5. Meaningful Education and Policy About Gender Identity
What Transgender Is
What Transgender Refers To
Transsexuals
Nondiscrimination Policies
Transition Planning
Chapter 6. Employee Networks: Expanding Challenges and Roles
A Winning Structure for Employee Networks
Mission Statement
Objectives
Organizational and Operational Details
What a Good Employee Network Can Accomplish
Brown-Bag Functions
Demographic/Environmental Surveys
Religion
Chapter 7. LGBTs and the Marketplace: Progressiveness Pays
The Business Case: An Example
What’s at Stake in Dollars and Cents
Advertising to the LGBT Market
Best Practices in Advertising
A New Kind of Supplier Diversity
The Equality Principles and Shareholder Activism
Client-Acquisition Education
Chapter 8. DPBs, Civil Unions, and Same-Sex Marriage
An Important Note to Begin
Domestic Partner Benefits
Civil Unions
Other Provisions Short of Civil Unions or Legal Marriage
Why Same-Sex Marriage Is Inevitable
What’s at Stake in Marital Status
Where Same-Sex Marriage Stands Now
Why Same-Sex Marriage Means Business
Chapter 9. It’s Academic
Sex Education in the Public Schools
GLSEN: What It Is, What It Does
Gay-Straight Alliances
Higher Education
Why It All Matters
Appendix I. Resources
Online Resources
Selected Bibliography
Appendix II. Tips for Transitioning People
Planning for Transition on the Job
Appendix III. Assessment Questions
Appendix IV. Campus Climate Survey Recommendations
Appendix V. Strategies for Managing Transition
Notes
Index
