Be the Best Manager

Test 3 MGT 258 Study Guide-Spring 2012

**Test consists of 25 multiple Choices worth 2 points each.

PART 4: LEADING

Ch 12 – Managing Individuals and a Diverse Work Force (pg 222 - 239)

No Multiple Choice

1 Essay on the Gender Identity presentation 15 points

Diversity: a variety of demographic, cultural, and personal differences among an organization’s employees and customers.

The Gender Binary Model

The Gender Fluid Model √ better model

How might the needs of Transgender people differ from the needs of non-transgender LGB people?

• They may identify as heterosexual, so may not be dealing with sexual identity issues.

• They may experience more verbal and physical attacks than most LGB people if they are cross dressed or otherwise visibly gender variant

• They are generally less accepted in society than LGB people, in large part because of ignorance

• They also often experience a lack of acceptance from the LGB community which uses transpeople as entertainers, but frequently doesn’t want to see them otherwise.

• If transitioning, they will need to change their identification and all records and documents

• As a result of the lack of acceptance in the dominate culture and LGB society, they often lack a community and don’t have role models or many positive images

• Trans students may want to remain closeted because of legitimate fear of how they will be treated by their professors, employers, and in their field

• If transitioning, they will need access to medical care and mental health care

• While butch lesbians and other masculine-appearing women are harasses in women’s restrooms, transsexual women are especially vulnerable to attack and embarrassment when they try to use the public bathroom appropriate for their gender

How to be an ally to transgender people and intersex people

• Validate people’s gender expression

• Use non-gender specific language

• Challenge your own conceptions about gender-appropriate roles and behaviors

• Do not assume...