Transgender Employees in the Workplace (eBook)
216 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78450-544-8 (ISBN)
Respect and understanding between colleagues is essential in any healthy, productive, equal-opportunities workplace. But as an employer, are you aware of the specific needs of transgender employees and applicants?This concise volume is the essential introduction for any employer on how to work effectively and respectfully with transgender employees, without asking the employee inappropriate or personal questions. In simple terms, it explains what it means to be transgender, the common challenges transgender people experience, and how you can best support transgender employees in their roles, and in their relationships with colleagues and clients.The book clarifies employers' legal responsibilities towards employees, offers practical solutions to bullying, and provides information on health and safety as well as medical issues such as surgeries and hormone therapy. The glossary of terms elucidates the finer points, such as the correct language to use with the employee, and the crucial differences between transgender identities, including gender variant and non-binary. By improving professional relationships company-wide and promoting your employees' wellbeing, this book will ultimately assist you in building a happier and higher-performing work force.
Jennie Kermode MA (hons) MRes is Chair of Trans Media Watch, a charity promoting positive media representations of the transgender community. She has written for The Independent, The New Statesman, Pink News and New Internationalist.
Introduction. 1. Understanding transgender people: the basics. 2. Interacting with transgender people. 3. Key employer responsibilities. 4. Recruitment and dismissal. 5. Data management - Jane Fae. 6. Transgender people in the workplace. 7. Health and safety at work. 8. Transgender people in public-facing roles. 9. Medical issues and time off work. 10. Transgender people working internationally. 11. The benefits of employing transgender people. Glossary.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.9.2017 |
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Co-Autor | Jane Fae |
Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w table |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen | |
Schlagworte | 2010 Equality Act • AFAB • ally • AMAB • asexual • assigned at birth • binary • Binding • Cisgender • Clothes • Coming out • Counselling • Cross-Dresser • Customer Facing Role • Data Management • Deadname • deed poll • Discrimination • Diversity • drag king • Drag Queen • Dysphoria • Equality • equal opportunities employer • Estradiol • F2M • Family • FTM • gender dysphoria • Gender expression • Gender identity • Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) • Gender nonconforming • Genderqueer • gender questioning • Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) • gender variant • Grief • Hair Removal • harassment • hormones • Hospital • Human Resources • Intersex • LGBTQ • LGBTQ+ • Loss • M2F • Management • Medical Transition • Mental Health • Misgender • MTF • non-binary • packing • pansexual • People Skills • positive discrimination • Prejudice • pronouns • queer issues • Recruitment • Sexual orientation • Shame • social transition • Surgery • Team building • The Equality Act • therapy • Toilets • Trans • transcurious • Transgender • Transition • Trans Man • Transphobia • Transsexual • Transvestite • trans woman • Tucking • Voice Coaching • workplace • WPATH |
ISBN-10 | 1-78450-544-7 / 1784505447 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78450-544-8 / 9781784505448 |
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