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¶ … sexual harassment and its negative impact on workplace. Many companies in past have faced the incidence of harassment due to which the company image was also negatively affected. Certain preventative measures and policies can help the companies maintain a safe and harassment free workplace for all workers.
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Issue Description
Sexual harassment is one of the most disturbing issues faced in the workplace. This creates many negative impacts on employees, such as -- it weakens gender equality and enforces costs on organizations, damages the comfort of men and women and also affects the quality of work performance.
International Labor Organization has set a common principal in order to encourage better working conditions for all the employees at work. However, sexual harassment in workplace is a big hurdle towards this objective (McCann, 2005).
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has described 'Harassment' as "undesirable act that is based on sex, pregnancy, color, race, religion, origin, age (40 or older), disability, or inherited information. It is an unwelcome sexual behavior that is conducted with a purpose to disrupt an individual's self-respect and generating a threatening, degrading, unfriendly or destructive environment" (Hejase, 2015).
2. Significance of Sexual Harassment affecting Workplace...
Employees who get affected may look for other job, remain absent from workplace or avoid performing certain tasks. They also tend to show negative behavior towards their fellow workers or management. Lower group productivity may also take place if even a single member of a group is being harassed (Lunenberg, 2010).
According to the research, other negative outcomes of harassment include employee absence, decreased job satisfaction and confidence, job loss and weakening relationships with fellow workers. Based on the self-report survey data, it is reported by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (1981, 1987) that thousands of women have gone through physical or emotional breakdown because of sexual harassment. In another study it was reported that 63% of the women who have asked for help from the Working Women's Institute suffered from physical stress. However, 94% women had to go through emotional suffering because of sexual harassment (Crull, 1982).
3. Case Study: Sexual Harassment at Infosys -- The Case of Phaneesh Murthy (2001)
A case of sexual harassment was experienced in U.S. offices of Infosys that is one of the India's most reputable and esteemed software organizations in October 1999 - December…
References
Crull, P. (1982). Stress effects of sexual harassment on the job: Implications for counseling. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 52, 539-544.
Deirdre McCann (2005). Sexual Harassment at Work: National and International Responses. International Labour Organization -- Geneva.
Fred C. Lunenberg (2010). Sexual Harassment: An Abuse of Power. International Journal of Management, Business and Administration Vol 13 No 1, 2010.
Hussin Jose Hejase (2015). Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Exploratory Study from Lebanon. Journal of Management Research ISSN 1941-899X 2015 Vol 7 No 1.
Sexual Harassment at Infosys (2014). Retrieved from http://mba.mit.asia/waves 2014/Sexual-Harassment-at-Infosys.pdf
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