Straight Talk about Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization

ISBN-13: 9781560235477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 226 str.

Liz Winfeld

Opis

Presents a frank discussion about all the relevant aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace. This newest edition of the National Library Award-winning book adds new and updated information on transgender issues.

Spis treści

• 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
  

O autorze

Winfeld, Liz