This illuminating book critically examines the landscape of research surrounding how LGBTQ+ employees can thrive at work and in their careers. Contributing authors provide an overview of the varied ways in which LGBTQ+ identities are researched within organizational, occupational and cultural contexts.
Chapters explore areas of research and practice that shape how LGBTQ+ people experience their work, including human rights, labour market dynamics, work-life dynamics and the power of personal narratives. Scholars present insights from various disciplines including the humanities, economics, sociology, management and psychology. Global case studies spanning Africa, Asia and South America analyse topics such as heteronormativity, intersectionality, colonial legacies and homocapitalism. The book looks to the future of research on LGBTQ+ working lives, assessing the challenges facing inclusion in the workplace, as well as highlighting movements promoting equality across the globe.
This timely book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of LGBTQ+ related topics, particularly work and employment, alongside critical management studies, organisational management and business and management. Practitioners in Human Resources, social policy, consultancy and training courses that focus on improving LGBTQ+ inclusion will also benefit greatly from this book.
This illuminating book critically examines the landscape of research surrounding how LGBTQ+ employees can thrive in the working environment and in their careers. Contributing authors provide an overview of the varied ways in which LGBTQ+ identities are researched within organizational, occupational and cultural contexts.
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An insightful and timely volume that breaks new ground in understanding LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion. Bridging diverse disciplines and theoretical traditions and spanning micro-, meso-, and macro-level dynamics, this collection critically examines existing scholarship while advancing new insights. Evidence-based, forward-looking, rigorous, and deeply relevantessential reading for scholars and practitioners alike. -- Jojanneke van der Toorn, Leiden University and Utrecht University, the Netherlands This exceptional volume brings together leading scholars from across the globe to offer cutting-edge perspectives on LGBTQ+ inclusion at work. Spanning disciplines, theories, and levels of analysis, it both consolidates the field and charts vital new directions for LGBTQ+ research. A field-defining, agenda-setting resource for future research in this critical area of scholarship. -- Belle Rose Ragins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA This book marks the realization of a long held vision to bring together leading and emerging scholars in a multidisciplinary dialogue on LGBTQ+ issues in work and employment. It unites global voices to celebrate the resilience and richness of LGBTQ+ academic communities around the world, and offers an inspiring vision towards equitable workplaces. -- Eddy Ng, Queens University, Canada
Contents
1 LGBTQ+ inclusion at work: An overview of chapters and
perspectives 1
Shaun Pichler and Luke Fletcher
2 Mapping the current landscape of LGBTQ+ workplace
inclusion research 10
Mustafa B. Ozturk and Brandon Legacy
3 Human rights and LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion 31
Anthony J. Langlois
4 LGBTQ+ labour market outcomes 53
Travis Campbell and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
5 LGBTQ+ entrepreneurial identity and inclusivity 77
Jade Kim and Etain Kidney
6 LGBTQ+ workplace stigmatisation and algorithmic systems 101
Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Kram Grasyon
7 LGBTQ+ workfamily/worklife dynamics 122
Katina Sawyer, Haley R. Cobb and Christian Thoroughgood
8 Organizational spectacles in promoting LGBTQ+ workplace
inclusion 143
Maria Rita Micheli, Mario Campana and Kat Duffy
9 Advancing narrative inquiry for LGBTQ+ workplace research 165
Rosa Marvell and Thirsha de Silva
10 Global perspectives: Queering the workplace and challenging
authoritarian control in China 180
Le Cui
11 Global perspectives: Moving past homonormativity and
homocapitalism in Indian workplaces 190
Apoorva Ghosh
12 Global perspectives: Equity for Two-Spirit and Indigenous
LGBTQ+ workers 198
Margaret Robinson
13 Global perspectives: Colonial legacies and LGBTQ+ inclusion
in Latin America 207
Alan Bandeira Pinheiro
14 Global perspectives: Doing LGBTQ+ workplace research in
the Middle East 213
Rifat Kamasak
15 Global perspectives: Heteronormativity and intersectional
LGBTQ+ inclusion in South Africa 222
Tshepo B. Maake
16 The future of research on LGBTQ+ working lives 230
Luke Fletcher, Shaun Pichler, Mario Campana, Travis
Campbell, Haley R. Cobb, Le Cui, Thirsha de Silva, Etain
Kidney, Jade Kim, Anthony J. Langlois, Brandon Legacy,
Tshepo B. Maake, Rosa Marvell, Ciarán McFadden, Maria
Rita Micheli, Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk, Margaret Robinson
and Katina Sawyer
Edited by Luke Fletcher, Professor of Psychology and Human Resource Management, Centre for Decent Work and Productivity, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Shaun Pichler, Professor of Management, Department of Management, California State University, Fullerton, USA
