Sexual Harassment at Workplace

Sexual harassment in the Workplace

Annotated Bibliography

Das, A. (2009). Sexual harassment at work in the united states. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38(6), 909-21. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9354-9

This article is about the practices of sexual harassment in the Us work place environment it tells about how sexual harassment can be reduced in the work place environment.

Echiejile, I. (1993). Dealing with sexual harassment at work. Employee Counselling Today, 5(4), 21. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/198485568?accountid=35812

This article briefly describes various ways for dealing with sexual harassment at workplace and how one can tackle this problem. This article suggests that employer should maintain professional environment in the workplace.

Fitzgerald, L. F. (1993). Sexual harassment: Violence against women in the workplace. American Psychologist, 48(10), 1070-1076. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.48.10.1070

This article demonstrates that mostly women are victim to sexual harassment at workplace. It has been found in the survey that people are using many other ways for harassing women in the work place.

Hurt, J. L. (2000). Why harassment happens at work: Theoretical developments of the antecedents of sexual harassment. (Order No. 3017809, Purdue University). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses,, 96-96 p. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/276328964?accountid=35812. (276328964).

This article explained various reasons behind sexual harassment at workplace and suggests recommendations for reducing harassment at workplace.

Lisa,G. (2013). Preventing sexual Harassment at Workplace. Data retrieved from http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/preventing-sexual-harassment-workplace-29851.html

This article gives recommendations for the prevention of harassment.

Sexual Harassment

It is defined as an unwanted act of a person to the opposite gender which is unacceptable in the workplace or society.

Summary

Sexual harassment is served as unethical behavior in the workplace. In this article, the author has explained that sexual harassment is against to ethical practices. He examines that social harassment at work place can be reduced if employees are given severe punishments for this action. Individuals sometimes do not think sexual harassment as an immoral act. The articles and their summaries are described below:

Social harassment at work in US

This article explains the phenomena of sexual harassment and other violent actions at work place in US. This article has studied the factors of sexual harassment at work place among both men and women. It has examined that mostly women become the victim of sexual harassment at work in some context, men are also affected by sexual harassment but their ratio is low as compared to women. This article explains two most important factors which give rise to sexual harassment at work place. First is called as power differential factor; it describes the gender power at work. Some people think that they have more power and authority in the organization so they can harass anyone. Men mostly perpetrated these actions to female's employees at work. The second factor includes daily routine activities of a work place. Employees with more sexuality factors attract opposite genders by using inappropriate gestures and postures with results in sexual harassment. Due to this, perpetrators make a perception that the next person can give me sexual benefit. Perpetrators take it as a great opportunity for harassment and use immoral behavior (Das, 2009).

Methodology

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