Sexual Harrassment Effects Of Sexual Harrassment In The Workplace

The problems of sexual harassment cases are prevalent in almost all of the companies. In today's workplace, incidents of sexual harassment have become common. It is not unusual that a majority of companies in America are facing countless suits on sexual harassments. While many companies have addressed the problem of sexual harassment at the organizational level with policy statements and other memos, management has not paid the real attention on lowering the number of sexual harassment in the workplace. The main problem occurs, as it is not clear what is a right conduct and what is a wrong conduct in case of the sexual harassment situation.

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes sexual harassment illegal, considering it to be a form of sexual discrimination. The statute, however, does not cover what kind of behavior constitutes sexual harassment. In layman's terms sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. There are usually two kinds of sexual harassments: Quid Pro Quo, and Hostile Environment

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This occurs when critical decisions regarding employment, promotions, transfer, discipline, or termination are made on the basis of sexual conduct. This conduct is considered illegal and does not have to be apart of the job.
There are several effects of sexual harassment on workplace victims. First, sexual harassment is found to lower the morale of the employees as many people who observe sexual harassment from a superior employee either quit their jobs or remain silent because of being fired. Moreover, an organizational climate that does not provide enough encouragement and equality based on the employees' work rather makes sexual conduct as a criterion, employees feel threatened in producing their best results as they do not get rewards for their efforts.

A hostile environment is a workplace in which a woman is subjected to abusive and demeaning conduct that adversely affects her ability to perform her job. It can take many forms such as verbal abuse, discussing sexual activities, using offensive language, making sexual gestures or engaging in unnecessary touching. In this type of sexual harassment, an employee does not need to suffer a job or monetary loss.

There are several things that employers can do for anti-sexual harassment policy, complaint…