Managing Sexual Orientation At Work: Private Sector vs Public Sector Insights
Dr. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey
Helping People Leaders Deliver High Impact Inclusion Work | Host of world's longest running inclusion podcast "Element of Inclusion"
It’s Pride Month.?
Some People think it’s?great.?
Some People think it’s?tokenism.?
Whatever you think:
Managing?Sexual Orientation in the workplace needs to be understood.?
I found a research paper with great insights:?
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This research?explored the development of sexual orientation diversity policy using?five businesses as case studies.
We focused on two businesses:?
Real companies.
Fake names.
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Comco?
- Employed 106,000 people in 55 countries.?
- Was a public sector organisation that was privatised.
- Had been developing work on sexual orientation "since the early 1980s.”?
Consultco
- Employed?nearly 400,000?people in?170?countries.?
- Described as an example of Corporate US-led development of?Sexual Orientation?work.?
- Responded to?“demands”?and?“pushing”?from employees.
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Here's what I noticed:
Public Sector Organisations:?
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- Driven by Social Justice arguments
- Institutions drive their?Sexual Orientation?agenda?
Private Sector Organisations:?
- Driven by Business Case arguments
- Employees drive their?Sexual Orientation?agenda?
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Here’s one of my takeaways:
Don’t ignore the Public Sector.?
The author described them as pioneers in this space.?
Well?established policies and procedures were indicative of a Public Sector history in the paper.?
There’s a special focus on the Business Case for Diversity?and the Private Sector.
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2 年Is our orientation something that needs defining or managing?
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2 年Good balanced research-based commentary - always clearly presented with new ideas and useful information from you Jonathan!