Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations (eBook)

Dr. Thomas Köllen is assistant professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations (Department of Management) at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). He has studied in Germany (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena), Italy (Università di Torino), and Austria (WU Vienna). He was a Doc Team Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2009) and a Visiting Scholar at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (2007) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niteroi, Brazil (2012). In 2016 he is a visiting professor at Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Dr. Köllen’s academic research interests include business ethics; issues of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation in management and organizations; and national identities and nationalism in the workplace.

Intersexuality and Trans-Identities Within the Diversity Management Discourse.- Understanding the Transgender Workplace.- The Challenges of Coming Out as a Female-to-Male Transgender in the Indian Organizational Space.- A Systematic Literature Review on Trans* Careers and Workplace Experiences.- Transgenderism, Sex Reassignment Surgery and Employees' Job Satisfaction.- Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender Employees in Australia.- On the Necessity of Including Gender in Spain's List of Prohibited Bases of Discrimination.- Transgender Rights in Canada.- Visibility and the Workplace Experiences of Trans Persons in the US.- Transgender Individuals in Asian Islamic Countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.- Religious Workplaces.- Discrimination and Marginalization of LGBT Workers in Thailand.- Uncovering the Experiences of LGBT Employees in Turkey.- LGBT Employees in the Hungarian Labor Market.- Gay Men and Male-to-Female Transgender Persons in Chile.- Experiences of LGBT Microaggressions in the Workplace.- Experiences of Non-Heterosexual and Trans Youth on Career Choice and in the Workplace.- Passing in Corporate India...