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Hello Colleagues (Apologies for Cross-Postings),

We hope you join us in Valencia, Spain for the EURAM conference from June 4-7, 2014!  Please see our call for papers below.  Please contact Dr. Köllen or me if you have any questions.  Hasta pronto! 

SIG  05:   Gender, Race & Diversity in Organisations

Topic sponsored by the SIG

05_02 Sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace

In most societies, heterosexuality, at least by trend, is still classified as "natural" and normatively anticipated for every individual, whereas homosexuality, as a break with these expectations, is often seen as "unnatural" and deficient. As a microcosm of society, it is also initially assumed in the workplace that co-workers and colleagues are heterosexual. Employees who do not conform to that expectation in most instances are confronted with different stereotypes and stereotype-based barriers in the workplace, such as the stereotypic shift of femininity and masculinity that is attached to homosexuality and transfers of organizational mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion that operate alongside the category of gender on the level of sexuality or sexual orientation. Another field of stereotypes is related to an often occurring over-sexualized perception of lesbians and gay men that sometimes clash with the fiction of asexuality as a crucial characteristic of a productive workplace.

Beside these concrete attributions more workplace-related barriers derive from the societal phenomenon of heterosexism and homophobia that also operates on the organizational level: This devaluation of e.g. homosexuality (and furthermore of individuals that are perceived to be homosexual), very often leads to specific discriminations. Worldwide, researchers and practitioners have increasingly sought to understand the experiences of lesbian and gay employees within the workplace, but until recently, only minimal research has been conducted on the unique situations of bisexual or transsexual employees.

We invite scholars to submit papers that address GLBT and gender identity issues from a variety of different perspectives.  Possible research questions may address but are not restricted to:

-          Understanding more fully the lived experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transsexual employees

-          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, non-high profile jobs, non-elected jobs, etc.)

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

-          Exploring the intersection of multiple stigmatized identities of GLBT people

-          Provide unique insights same-sex relationships among colleagues within the same workplace and perceived or real career-related outcomes

-          Sexual harassment of GLBT employees

-          Explore whether there are GLBT/Gender stereotype conformity to specific organizational citizenship behaviors

-          Experience of microagressions of GLBT employees within the workplace

-          Mentoring opportunities and challenges of GLBT employees and self-efficacy perceptions (e.g. I can or cannot see myself in you)

-          Conservation of resources models or exhaustion or resource depletion of GLBT employees (e.g. emotional labor, etc.)

05_02 Sexual orientation and gender identity at the workplace

We invite submission of full papers, following the Euram submission guidelines. Submissions will be made on the Euram 2014 website from December 1st 2013 until January 16th 2014. Notification of acceptance will be given as of 28 March 2014. More information and guidelines are available on the Euram 2014 website : http://www.euram-online.org/conference/2014/

Proponents

Thomas Köllen. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. thomas.koellen@wu.ac.at

Oscar Homes IV. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Business, USA.  Oscar.HolmesIV@Rutgers.edu

Keywords

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Transgender

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Oscar Holmes IV, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

School of Business

227 Penn Street

Camden, NJ 08102

BSB 332

Email:  Oscar.HolmesIV@Rutgers.edu

P:  856-225-6593

F:  856-225-6231

http://business.camden.rutgers.edu/faculty-profiles/hr/holmes/

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