Naar een inclusieve werkvloer: Seksuele oriëntatie en genderidentiteit op het werk

Abstract

In this abbreviated version of my inaugural lecture, I advocate for an inclusive workplace in which there is room for sexual orientation and gender identity. I discuss how this topic is researched by social and organizational psychologists and what we have learned from this to date. I pay attention to potential obstacles on the road to an inclusive workplace and to blind spots in diversity policy, but also to potential solutions and to the opportunities that an inclusive workplace has to offer to organizations and their employees. Then I present a program of research aimed at gaining the necessary insights in how an inclusive workplace can be realized. Here I focus on the psychological processes that stand in the way of a truly inclusive workplace for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, and what we can learn from these processes in order to come up with practical solutions. I emphasize the importance of paying attention to minority and majority group members alike and of collaboration between science, civil society, the public sector and industry.