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Title: Workplace Harassment


1
Workplace Harassment
  • What Employees Need to Know

2
Session Objectives
  • You will be able to
  • Understand why harassment is a problem
  • Identify the requirements of laws and policies
  • Recognize signs of harassment
  • Follow proper reporting procedures and cooperate
    with investigations
  • Understand how you can help maintain a fair and
    professional workplace

3
What You Need to Know
  • What harassment is and how it hurts us all
  • Laws and workplace policy prohibiting harassment
  • Procedures for reporting harassment
  • Harassment investigations
  • How complaints are resolved
  • What you can do to prevent harassment

4
What Is Harassment?
  • Harassment is unwelcome behavior directed at a
    member of a protected group
  • Harassment usually involves a pattern of behavior
  • Harassment is a form of illegal discrimination

5
What Is Harassment? (cont.)
  • Harassment is often blatant
  • Harassment can also be subtle
  • Behavior short of illegal discrimination

6
What Harassment Is NOT
  • Occasional teasing
  • Offhand comments
  • Isolated incidents that are not extremely serious

7
When Is It Harassment?
  • One extremely serious incident
  • Intimidating, hostile, offensive environment

8
When Is It Harassment? (cont.)
  • Unreasonable interference with work performance
  • Negative effect on an individuals employment
    opportunities

9
Why Harassment Is a Problem
  • Victims may lose their sense of security,
    dignity, and confidence
  • All employees may be demoralized
  • People may start to feel unsafe on the job
  • Confidence in the organization may be threatened
  • Accused employees may suffer loss of reputation
    and credibilityor even their jobs

10
What the Law Says About Workplace Harassment
  • Title VII
  • State law
  • Requirements

11
Our Harassment Policy
  • Firmly prohibits workplace harassment
  • Encourages victims to come forward
  • Promises prompt response to employee complaints
  • Ensures fair and professional treatment of all
    employees
  • Promotes a respectful work environment

12
Harassment in the Workplace
  • Do you understand the information in the previous
    slides?

13
Verbal Harassment
  • Threats
  • Intimidation
  • Offensive language, slurs, or derogatory comments
  • Graffiti
  • Jokes
  • Circulating insulting stories or rumors about a
    person

14
Nonverbal Harassment
  • Staring
  • Standing over someone in an intimidating manner
  • Displaying or circulating offensive pictures,
    cartoons, or objects
  • Singling out members of protected groups for
    unfavorable treatment

15
Harassment Complaints
  • Report all incidents right away
  • No complaints will be ignored
  • You are allowed to bypass the normal chain of
    command
  • You will be protected from further harassment

16
Harassment Investigations
  • Is an investigation necessary?
  • How long will it take?
  • What intermediate measures may be necessary?
  • Has harassment occurred?

17
Questions Asked During Investigations
Who
  • Questions we may ask the person making the
    complaint

Where
When
How
18
Questions Asked During Investigations (cont.)
  • Questions we may ask the alleged harasser
  • Questions we may ask witnesses

19
Has Harassment Occurred?
  • Making a determination
  • When no determination is possible
  • Filing a report
  • Informing those involved
  • Dealing with cases involving behavior short of
    illegal harassment

20
Corrective Action
  • We must make sure
  • The victim is not adversely affected
  • The harassment stops immediately and does not
    occur again

21
Corrective Action (cont.)
  • We must also
  • Correct the effects of the harassment
  • Follow up to make sure the problem is solved

22
Identifying Harassment And Correcting Its Effects
  • Do you understand the information presented in
    the previous slides?

23
How You Can Help Prevent Workplace Harassment
  • Read and understand harassment policies and
    procedures
  • Monitor your own behavior
  • Speak up in support of a respectful workplace
  • Report incidents immediately
  • Cooperate with investigations

24
Key Points to Remember
  • Illegal harassment is unwelcome behavior directed
    at a person because of race, color, religion,
    national origin, or sex
  • No rude, insensitive, or abusive behavior will
    be tolerated in our organization
  • You play an important role in helping to identify
    and prevent workplace harassment
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