LGBT employee groups: Goals and organizational structures

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-135

  Githens, Rod P ^a   Aragon, Steven R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Department of Human Resource Education ^*

Author keywords

Employee resource groups; Gender identity; Sexual orientation; Workplace activism; Workplace diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849115650     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: 15523055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422308329200     Document Type: Article

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