Leveraging sexual orientation workforce diversity through identity deployment

Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 403-424

  Ghosh, Apoorva ^a  

^a XLRI XAVIER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch024     Document Type: Chapter

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