1. The Value of LGBT Networks within Organisations LGBT Professional Network Forum 15 April 2011 Vienna Marion Mulder [email_address]
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The Platform’s main activities include providing a point of reference for employee networks to exchange their experiences and gain support, to increase knowledge on LGBT workplace issues and to define and progress the LGBT corporate agenda in the Netherlands and Europe, through:
Companies have a potentially rich resource in house: the networks of their employees. Most companies barely scratch the surface of what they can do with the informal networks of their employees, and most do not even fully commit to getting the most out of their formal employee networks. This is a finding of recent research into how corporate gay and lesbian networks and human resource departments work together in six large multinational corporations in the Netherlandsi. What the networks can offer, if managed as network resources, is the holy grail of human resource management: centers of innovation creating unique knowledge that gives the company an edge on its competitors