A collection of employees, typically having a particular common characteristic such as race, gender or sexual orientation, who are organized in an effort to mobilize for strategic and/or activist purposes within the organization, and also, across other networks of similarly characterized groups in other organizations or sectors.
Published in Chapter:
Leveraging Workforce Diversity through a Critical Examination of Intersectionalities and Divergences between Racial Minorities and Sexual Minorities
Julie Gedro (SUNY Empire State College, USA)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch004
Abstract
Using a multi-disciplinary survey of educational studies, sociology, adult education, and human resources literature, this chapter explores the ways that racial minorities and sexual minorities (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) face oppression in organizational contexts. It examines and critiques organizational responses to diversity, and it uncovers the ways that these populations differ. Implications for diversity training programs are articulated, suggestions for training practice are offered, and recommendations for further research are provided.