The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2009
276 pages
978-0-313-36585-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this groundbreaking work, an expert in transgender explains practices and policies that will lead to a healthier, happier workplace.
As The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace demonstrates, there is a strong business case for treating transgender workers with dignity. Its tips, guidelines, and policy examples will help organizations enhance the bottom line, while keeping the workplace harmonious. The most in-depth and informative volume on transgender workers ever written, the book offers useful tools, practical information, and a variety of resources that will enable business leaders and organizations to deal effectively with the transgender phenomenon. It will also help workers struggling with their identities and will give strength to those who are secure, but have yet to come out.
There is no doubt that this guide will become the leading resource for every business owner, CEO, manager, HR/EEO professional, and transgender worker. Better yet, it will improve the cultural climate and quality of life for transgender workers and the organizations that employ them, resulting in increased productivity and improved profitability.
As The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace demonstrates, there is a strong business case for treating transgender workers with dignity. Its tips, guidelines, and policy examples will help organizations enhance the bottom line, while keeping the workplace harmonious. The most in-depth and informative volume on transgender workers ever written, the book offers useful tools, practical information, and a variety of resources that will enable business leaders and organizations to deal effectively with the transgender phenomenon. It will also help workers struggling with their identities and will give strength to those who are secure, but have yet to come out.
There is no doubt that this guide will become the leading resource for every business owner, CEO, manager, HR/EEO professional, and transgender worker. Better yet, it will improve the cultural climate and quality of life for transgender workers and the organizations that employ them, resulting in increased productivity and improved profitability.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36585-0 (9780313365850)
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Vanessa Sheridan
The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace
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07/2009
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Persons
Vanessa Sheridan has been researching, writing, and speaking about transgender issues on a national basis since 1991.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What Is Transgender?
- Interlude: So, Whaddya Know?
- Chapter 2: Who Are Transgender People?
- Chapter 3: Why Transgender Inclusion Matters to Your Business (Even If You Didn't Know It)
- Chapter 4: The Great Restroom Debate
- Chapter 5: Benefits of Transgender-Specific Awareness Training
- Chapter 6: Coming Out as Transgender at Work
- Chapter 7: Tools for Organizational Leaders
- Chapter 8: Help for Human Resources Professionals
- Chapter 9: Practical Ideas for Organizations
- Chapter 10: Insights for Coworkers of Transpersons
- Chapter 11: Tips for Transgender Workers
- Chapter 12: What to Do about, with, and for Transgender Customers
- Chapter 13: What You Can Do
- Appendices
- 1. Answers to the ''So, Whaddya Know?'' Quiz
- 2. Recommended Reading
- 3. Suggested Web sites
- 4. XYZ Company: Guiding Principles, Procedures, and Best Practices for Transsexual Employee Transitions in the Workplace
- 5. International Bill of Gender Rights
- 6. Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Equal Opportunity Policy Statement
- 7. IBM Corporation Equal Opportunity Policy
- 8. The Equality Principles
- Notes
- Index
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- C
- D
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