Understanding gender, sexuality and identity diversity continues to be a challenge in organizations. The CIPD (2021) has reported that many organizations have been slow to make progress in fostering inclusive workplace cultures where inclusive policies and practices are developed and applied sensitively and respectfully. Against a backdrop of visible and invisible instances of inequality, discrimination and marginalization, this panel discussion has the aim of fostering dialogue about LGBTQIA+ workers and their workplace experiences.
The panel is looking to bring theoretical, methodological, and empirical thinking that helps to shape inclusive scholarship, teaching, learning and praxis. The questions guidance this panel discussion are:
- How can scholarship in gender in management theoretically and methodologically interrogate the discursive constitution of LGBTQIA+ identities in the workplace in non-oppressive ways?
- How do we, through our research, teaching, learning and praxis, engage with discussions about LGBTQIA+ identities and work experiences without being simplistic, stereotypical, or silencing?
- How can we theoretically and methodologically address the situatedness of LGBTQIA+ workplace experiences?
CIPD (2021) Inclusion at work: Perspectives on LGBT+ working lives.
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Provider Information
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Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to A1, A2 and A3 as detailed in the BAM Framework
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Speakers
Dr Sucharita Maji
Dr Sucharita Maji is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. Her research is located in the area of Social Psychology, where she addresses gender issues in organizations, amongst others in the STEM sector.
She published on self-silencing, gender in STEM, LGBTQ, micro-aggression and the imposter phenomenon.
Dr Maji was a Women in Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 2023 and Guest Researcher at the University of Oslo in 2022.
Dr Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk
Dr Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk is Reader in Human Resource Management in the School of Business and Management, at Queen Mary University of London.
Dr Ozturk operates in the broad area of human resource management and organisational behaviour, with a primary specialisation in workplace equality, diversity and inclusion. His research aims to delineate privileges and disadvantages associated with gender, gender identity, sexual orientation as well as race and ethnicity in organisations.
Originally from Turkey, Dr. Ozturk spent ten years in the US, where he attained a BA in Economics and Politics from New York University, and subsequently an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, having studied the political economy of human capital investment.
Nkosana Tshisa
Nkosana Tshisa is a Lecturer at the Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA), under the faculty of HR, Law and Health Management. Tshisa studied International Business Studies at Aalen University (Germany). They hold a masters’ degree in Human Resource Management and specialise in HR, Industrial Psychology and Strategic Management.
Tshisa is passionate about social justice, feminism and queer theory. They have also sat on panels of various conferences and symposiums on issues related to gender equality, LGBTQIA+ and transformation.
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Chaired by
Dr Jenny Rodriguez
Jenny Rodriguez is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies and member of the Work & Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester.
Her research focuses on intersectional inequality in work and organisations, and the interplay between identity, work and regulation, and has explored the transnational experiences of skilled migrant women. She is the Chair of the Gender in Management Special Interest Group at BAM.
She is also involved in scholar activism as founding member of the Decolonizing Alliance, an international community committed to intellectual and practical collaboration, translation, active solidarity and resistance to tackle intersectional inequalities and neo-colonial power relations faced by people of colour in the Global South and the Global North. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jenny.rodriguez.html
Dr Elisabeth Anna Guenther
Elisabeth Anna Guenther is a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Computational Empowerment Lab.
Her work on intersectional interference in the social practice of teaching STEM received several awards. She combines her profound knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies with social theories to unveil implicit inequality practices.
Her current research focusses on intersectional reflexivity in and through digital empowerment. https://www.elisabeth-anna-guenther.eu/
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Benefits of attending
- Gain more understanding of the challenges facing LGBTQIA+ workers.
- Reflect on the complexity of gender, sexuality and identity diversity in the workplace.
- Support insightful thinking about developing inclusive work cultures sensitively and respectfully.
- Engage in conversation that builds bridges between diverse knowledge projects.
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
- BAM Members: Free
- Non-Members: £25
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Registration closes on 10th June 2024 at 23:59 BST
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