Inclusive Workplaces: Solidarity and Lgbt Community within Uk Organizations

The fostering of solidarity among people belonging to minority groups, fairly impacts on a supportive behaviour in widening an inclusive and anti-discriminatory climate in organization. This article explores how the distance between solidarity and Diversity Management is declined in organizations and what are the terms of solidarity deficiency in Gender and Equality policies. In this article, the distance between solidarity and diversity management is explored trough the analysis of seven public and private bodies in UK. Using the Critical Discourse Analysis method, voicing and silencing processes have been observed, where voicing is meant as a participatory practice and silence as both a form of resistance and a non-disclosure behaviour. Documents produced by the organisations involved, both singularly and in group, have been analysed together with semi-structured interviews. The main results concern the interpersonal nature of solidarity related to the strategic attitude of diversity management.