Transgender disclosure decisions and workplace socio-cultural dynamics

ABSTRACT

The underlined paper aimed at taking transgender individual disclosure decisions in a workplace to be a matter of socio-cultural dynamics. Hence, the place of transgender individuals, defined by the religious and socio-cultural values especially of Muslim society, triggered the very thought of this research. So, Pakistan and Bangladesh, being the Muslim countries, were involved for its data. Thus, the results of the exhaustive interviews with the transgender individuals exhibited the influence of the socio-cultural factors, innately rooted in the environment, on the disclosure decisions in the workplace and non-workplace environments. The respondents believed that the disclosure decision in the workplace, between non-disclosures to the plenary and total disclosure ranges was influenced by the family reputation complexities, a tightly integrated communal network, ethical obligations and the predominant religious views in the society. The current research developed our understanding of gender identity and the disclosure decision of the transgender individuals while elucidating the mechanism in which the socio-cultural factors are the incomprehensible contour of their decision emergence act.

KEYWORDS:

• Transgender
• disclosure decision
• gender identity

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Qaiser Rafique Yasser

Qaiser Rafique Yasser has experience of more than 16 years working Pakistan and abroad with corporate sector, educational institutions and Government departments. Five book publications and 41 research papers in international renowned journals are under his name. He is an expert in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. He holds a PhD (Financial Economics) degree from University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia.

Reena Agrawal

Reena Agrawal is an academician, consultant, researcher, and trainer with more than twenty years of experience in the field accounting and finance. She has contributed forty plus research articles in reputed refereed and Scopus indexed journals. Her academic research interests include: accounting, sustainability, design thinking, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and family businesses.

Irfan Ahmed

Irfan Ahmed is an academician having more than 40 publications in reputed journals and currently working as Assistant Professor at Jazan University, KSA.