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- Title
Watching the Watch: The UK Fire Service and its Impact on Sexual Minorities in the Workplace.
- Authors
Ward, James; Winstanley, Diana
- Abstract
This empirical study in one UK Fire Service explores the experiences of sexual minorities in the workplace, an under-researched area of diversity, but one that has a growing focus of interest. The article aims to show that the organizational culture has an impact on sexual minorities in a number of different ways. The UK Fire Service is an organization which is fragmented into regional brigades, fire stations and watches (shifts) and it is at the level of the Watch that firefighters interact very closely. This article shows the complexities and dynamics of sexual minorities living and working in the Watch culture in the Fire Service. In particular, it highlights the different dimensions of the Fire Service culture which have an impact on sexual minorities. These are: the work environment, discourse, ways of working, rules, association, signs and symbols.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; SEXUAL minorities; WORK environment; DIVERSITY in the workplace; PERSONNEL management
- Publication
Gender, Work & Organization, 2006, Vol 13, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0968-6673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00304.x