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2018
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Kelly L. Reddy-Best
LGBTQ Women, Appearance Negotiations, and Workplace Dress Codes
The purpose of this study was to explore LGBTQ women’s experiences with unwritten or formal dress codes at work. I asked: What are LGBTQ women’s experiences in the workplace with appearance management, and what are LGBTQ women’s experiences navigating the...
2018
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Jennifer Slater
The Christian ethic of inclusive leadership within diastratic diversity: employing liminality as an analytical tool
This article discerns the ingredients leadership ought to employ when it functions within the plurifactorial dimensions of the sociological, economic, political, cultural, religious and class diversity. It discerns what qualities enable leadership to befriend and contain diastratic conditions present in...
2018
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Jaigris Hodson, Samantha Jackson, Wendy Cukier, Mark Holmes
Between the corporation and the closet: Ethically researching LGBTQ+ identities in the workplace
Purpose – This paper engages the ecological model as a conceptual tool to examine the ethics of conducting research on LGBTQ+ individuals in the workplace. In particular, it focuses on outness and the act of outing in research. Design/methodology/approach –...
2018
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Sabine Bacouel
Identity construction in the workplace: Different reactions of ethnic minority groups to an organizational diversity policy in a French manufacturing company
This study investigates how a French manufacturing company responds to institutional forces concerning its diversity policy and how employees react to it, particularly those belonging to minority groups not addressed by the policy. Such questions are relevant to the legitimacy...
2018
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Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Gender Diversity in the Workplace: Econometric Evidence from Japan
Using panel data on corporate social responsibility (CSR) matched with corporate proxy statement data for a large and representative sample of 1,492 publicly traded firms in Japan over 2006–2014, we provide fixed effect estimates on the positive and significant effects...
2017
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Cristin A. Compton & Debbie S. Dougherty
Organizing Sexuality: Silencing and the Push–Pull Process of Co-sexuality in the Workplace
How human beings think about, talk about, and organize around sexuality is changing. Growing social legitimization for sexual minority relationships and a more fluid social understanding of sexual identities has shifted how we bound “normal” sexuality. In the workplace, these...
2017
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Anouk Lloren & Lorena Parini
How LGBT-Supportive Workplace Policies Shape the Experience of Lesbian, Gay Men, and Bisexual Employees
Support for lesbians’, gay men’s, bisexuals’, and transgender people’s (LGBT) rights has increased over the last two decades. However, these recent trends hide existing disparities between and within countries. In particular, workplace discrimination is still a relatively widespread phenomenon. Although...
2017
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Nanette L. Yragui • Caitlin A. Demsky • Leslie B. Hammer • Sarah Van Dyck • Moni B. Neradilek
Linking Workplace Aggression to Employee Well-Being and Work: The Moderating Role of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB)
Purpose The present study examined the moderating effects of family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) on the relationship between two types of workplace aggression (i.e., patient-initiated physical aggression and coworker-initiated psychological aggression) and employee well-being and work outcomes. Methodology Data were obtained...
2017
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Suchuan Zhang and Qiao Shi
The relationship between subjective well-being and workplace ostracism: The moderating role of emotional intelligence
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of subjective well-being (SWB) on workplace ostracism, by focusing on the moderating role of emotional intelligence (EI). SWB is taken here as a construct of three components: life...
2017
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Randall Robbins
The untapped potential of the ADHD employee in the workplace
As diagnoses increase, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have come to the forefront of popular understanding. Subsequently, much discussion exists concerning the legal and social ramifications for those who have ADD or ADHD in the...
2017
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Lisa M. Steurer
Maternity Leave Length and Workplace Policies’ Impact on the Sustainment of Breastfeeding: Global Perspectives
Background: Breastfeeding is a global initiative of the World Health Organization and the U.S. domestic health agenda, Healthy People 2020; both recommend exclusive breastfeeding, defined as providing breast milk only via breast or bottle, through the first 6 months of...
2017
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Diana Rajendran, Karen Farquharson, Chandana Hewege
Workplace integration: the lived experiences of highly skilled migrants in Australia
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how highly skilled migrants to Australia integrate into the workplace, focussing on the factors that foster or hinder that integration. Design/methodology/approach – An inductive method using an interpretive methodological approach...
2017
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Edited by Carlos Tasso Eira de Aquino and Robert W. Robertson
Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace: Aligning Initiatives with Strategic Business Goals
In today’s workforce, employees belong to different age groups, races, and ethnicities are of different genders and have different sexual orientation, besides leading, managing, thinking, and learning in diverse ways. There are people in full command of their physical abilities...
2017
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Bronwyn Ewing, Grace Sarra, Robin Price, Grace O’Brien and Chelsey Priddle
Access to sustainable employment and productive training: workplace participation strategies for Indigenous employees
Access to sustainable and viable employment is crucial to an individual’s potential to achieve a reasonable quality of life. Policies introduced to promote Indigenous employment in Australia, such as Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP), have had minimal impact on long-term...
2017
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Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood
Gender non-conformity and the modern workplace: New frontiers in understanding and promoting gender identity expression at work
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves.” –—Steve Maraboli, Ph.D. As the opening quote suggests, when employees can authentically express themselves at work, they tend to be happier and healthier. In today’s modern workplace, HR man-...
2017
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Rezza Moieni, Peter Mousaferiadis, and Carlos Oscar Sorezano
A Practical Approach to Measuring Cultural Diversity on Australian Organizations and Schools
Although there is an abundance of academic literature addressing the importance of cultural diversity, there is a significant lack of discussion afforded to actual methodologies employed when measuring diversity. Our research comprises the development of a set of quantifiable dimensions...
2017
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Sara J. Baker, Kristen Lucas
Is it safe to bring myself to work? Understanding LGBTQ experiences of workplace dignity
Despite increased efforts by more organizations to be seen as “gay-friendly,” workplaces remain challenging sites for LGBTQ employees to navigate. We examine the ways in which LGBTQ employees experience dignity threats in the workplace and the protection strategies they use...
2017
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"Heasun Choi, Sounman Hong, and Jung Wook Lee"
Does Increasing Gender Representativeness and Diversity Improve Organizational Integrity?
Recent scholarship has suggested that representative bureaucracy improves organizational integrity. This article tests this argument with respect to gender, using data from Korean government agencies from 2008 to 2014. The findings suggest that an increase in female representation and diversity...
2017
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Tina Opie and Laura Morgan Roberts
Do black lives really matter in the workplace? Restorative justice as a means to reclaim humanity
Purpose – Overwhelming evidence suggests that black lives have not and do not matter in the American workplace. In fact, disturbing themes of black labor dehumanization, exploitation and racial discrimination appear throughout history into the present-day workplace. Yet, curiously, organizations...
2017
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"Ivana Ivandic, Kaloyan Kamenov, Diego Rojas, Gloria Cerón, Dennis Nowak and Carla Sabariego"
Determinants of Work Performance in Workers with Depression and Anxiety: A Cross-Sectional Study
Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent disorders with an impact on existential aspects of person’s life, including employment i.e., work performance (WP). In order to develop appropriate strategies, it is essential to identify determinants of WP. The objective of this...