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Personal Revelation and Conflict in Organizational Settings: The Gay Individual as Social Perceiver of Power and Safety.
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Abstract This paper models the process by which individuals make decisions to reveal intimate details about themselves in the workplace. Specifically, I have outlined an approach to understanding and explaining how gay people make sense of the world around them, particularly with respect to coming out decisions in a range of organizational contexts, and how those around them respond to their coming out. This sense-making process is dominated by an analysis of the perceived power dynamics and conflicting relationships among actors in which the person deciding to reveal (self-revealer) processes available information to determine the possibility of being hurt by revealing either in that setting or in some context causally linked to that setting. Personal Revelation and Conflict in Organizational Settings: The Gay Individual as Social Perceiver of Power and Safety "The current western concept of a gay man or a lesbian-a person who is fundamentally different in whom he or she loves,...
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