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EURAM 2018, 20 – 23 June, University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Strategic Interest 5 – Gender, Race, and Diversity in Organisations (GRDO)

http://www.euram-online.org/annual-conference-2018.html

ST 05_02:  

Queer Perspectives: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Plurality of Self-Concepts in Organisations

Short Description

In organization and management research, a small but increasing amount of attention has been cast on the issues experienced by lesbian and gay employees in the workplace, and organizational responses to these issues. Those issues experienced by bisexual and transgender employees have, until now, largely been overlooked. Many organizations use the term LGBT (sometimes LGBTI) to designate the target group of organizational practices (e.g., diversity management), although, in reality, they are usually aimed at lesbian and gay employees. As transgenderism and intersexuality are not related to a certain sexual orientation, subsuming these phenomena into one umbrella term, together with different sexual orientations, marginalizes the unique stressors transgender or intersex employees have to face. Unique experiences of transgender employees, for example, can appear before, within, and after transitioning. In this context, this track encourages researchers to submit contributions that broaden the understanding of both issues related to employees' sexual orientation (such as being bisexual, lesbian, gay, and also on heterosexuality), and issues that are specifically related to transgender or intersex employees.

Long Description                         

We invite scholars to submit papers that address LGBTI and plurality issues from a variety of different perspectives. Possible research questions may address:

·         - Understanding more fully the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or intersex employees.

·         - Processes of (de)categorization in employees' identity formation/management

·         - Exploring the general plurality of self-concepts in terms of workplace diversity

·         - How sexual orientation or gender identity may affect career paths as well as career aspirations (e.g. preferring "supporting role" jobs or stereotype-congruent jobs, low-profile jobs, non-elected jobs, etc.).

·         - Evaluations  of  diversity  management  activities  in  terms  of  various  individual  or organizational outcomes.

·         - Exploration of the intersection of multiple stigmatized identities of LGBTI people.

·         - Theoretical considerations on L, G, B, T, and/or I- related issues in organizations (e.g. queer theory, business ethics, and feminist/gender studies).

·         - Provision of unique insights into same-sex relationships among colleagues within the same workplace and perceived, or real, career-related outcomes.

·         - Sexual harassment of LGBTI employees.

·         - Exploration   of   whether   there   is   LGBTI/gender stereotype conformity to specific organizational citizenship behaviors.

·        - Experience of microaggressions of LGBTI employees within the workplace.

Publishing Outlets:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

For more information:

Contact the proponents above mentioned.

Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018 (2 pm Belgian time)

Authors Guidelines and Submission Deadline:

As an author, it is crucial to follow the guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare and submit your paper in order to have it published in proceedings.

ONE PRESENTING AUTHOR PER PAPER SUBMISSION

Each individual is limited to one personal appearance on the programme as a presenting author. This policy precludes acceptance of papers for more than one presentation. In other words, an author can submit and present only one paper. However, a presenter can always be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers.

Please read the instructions carefully prior to submitting:

1.      Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track.

2.      Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2018 Conference.

3.      To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED; author information and acknowledgements are to be included in a SEPARATE document).

4.      The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.

5.      The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide.

6.      Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.

7.      Number all of the pages of the paper.

8.      No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, track and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.

9.      Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus- free. Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2018 website (open as of 1 December 2017: see http://www.euram-online.org/annual-conference-2018.html.)

10.  Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.

11.  In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. A presenting author can only present one paper at the conference.

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Dr. Thomas Köllen

IOP, University of Bern, Switzerland

thomas.koellen@iop.unibe.ch

www.koellen.eu

www.iop.unibe.ch