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

by Winfeld; Liz

• ISBN13: 9781560235460
• ISBN10: 1560235462
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Find out how being more LGBT inclusive can increase your organization's productivity--and 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape	1	(18)
Dealing with What Is Now	2	(1)
It's About All People	3	(1)
The Inherent Argument	4	(4)
What Do We Really Choose?	8	(1)
What's Actually Changing	9	(4)
The Language Used in This Book	13	(3)
The Rest of This Book	16	(1)
It's a Moving Target	17	(2)
Chapter 2. Strategies for Inclusion in the New World	19	(20)
What the Work Is For	20	(2)
Ground Rules for the Work	22	(3)
The Work	25	(11)
Tools and Techniques	36	(3)
Chapter 3. The Facts of the Matter	39	(18)
Important Terms	40	(5)
Coming Out: Individuals to Organizations and Back	45	(3)
Organizational Coming Out	48	(2)
Replacing Myths with Facts	50	(7)
Chapter 4. Meaningful and Effective Workplace Sexual Orientation Education	57	(20)
Diversity Education Must Be a Process	59	(5)
Three Questions	64	(2)
Implementation of Sexual Orientation Education in the Workplace	66	(11)
Chapter 5. Meaningful Education and Policy About Gender Identity	77	(16)
What Transgender Is	78	(1)
What Transgender Refers To	79	(1)
Transsexuals	80	(2)
Nondiscrimination Policies	82	(1)
Transition Planning	83	(10)
Chapter 6. Employee Networks: Expanding Challenges and Roles	93	(18)
A Winning Structure for Employee Networks	94	(2)
Mission Statement	96	(1)
Objectives	97	(1)
Organizational and Operational Details	98	(1)
What a Good Employee Network Can Accomplish	99	(1)
Brown-Bag Functions	100	(2)
Demographic/Environmental Surveys	102	(5)
Religion	107	(4)
Chapter 7. LGBTS and the Marketplace: Progressiveness Pays	111	(20)
The Business Case: An Example	113	(2)
What's at Stake in Dollars and Cents	115	(4)
Advertising to the LGBT Market	119	(2)
Best Practices in Advertising	121	(4)
A New Kind of Supplier Diversity	125	(1)
" The Equality Principles" and Shareholder Activism	126	(1)
Client-Acquisition Education	127	(4)
Chapter 8. DPBs, Civil Unions, and Same-Sex Marriage	131	(34)
An Important Note to Begin	131	(1)
Domestic Partner Benefits	132	(22)
Civil Unions	154	(1)
Other Provisions Short of Civil Unions or Legal Marriage	155	(1)
Why Same-Sex Marriage Is Inevitable	156	(1)
What's at Stake in Marital Status	157	(1)
Where Same-Sex Marriage Stands Now	158	(1)
Why Same-Sex Marriage Means Business	159	(6)
Chapter 9. It's Academic	165	(14)
Sex Education in the Public Schools	167	(1)
GLSEN: What It Is, What It Does	168	(3)
Gay-Straight Alliances	171	(1)
Higher Education	172	(2)
Why It All Matters	174	(5)
Appendix I. Resources	179	(4)
Online Resources	179	(2)
Selected Bibliography	181	(2)
Appendix II. Tips for Transitioning People	183	(6)
Planning for Transition on the Job	183	(6)
Appendix III. Assessment Questions	189	(4)
Appendix IV. Campus Climate Survey Recommendations	193	(4)
Appendix V. Strategies for Managing Transition	197	(4)
Notes	201	(6)
Index	207