Harassment

Chapter 20 Online Hour Task Policy Regulation of Alcohol and drug testing, workplace harassment, and personal use of workplace technology (Social Media) Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulation at Workplace: In the case that an employee does test positive for drug use, or fails a sobriety test, you need to decide what type of disciplinary action will be taken. Perhaps surprisingly, the consensus among most experts is immediate termination. “When someone is truly under the influence of something and…

The main fear is a sexual harassment lawsuit resulting from either: 1) a superior who has a pattern of soliciting juniors out on dates; 2) a worker who files a complaint after a consensual relationship goes south; or 3) the view of co-workers that a manager is playing favorites with his or her "significant other." Sexual harassment laws forbid "unwelcome" sexual advances. Therefore, the partakers in a really "consensual" relationship cannot support sexual harassment. The struggle for the…

Review of Related Literature Workplace Violence covers a wide extent of conduct. Workplace violence is any incident in which an employee is abused, threatened or assaulted by fellow employees or by a public member arising out in different circumstances in line with his or her course of employment. Workplace violence is viewed as one of the most serious forms of misconduct in the workplace. This is because of the disadvantageous impact it can have on workplace relationships and environment in…

Sexual Harassment Tutorial Based upon the scenario, Brittany Murphy has a legally viable claim for both quid pro quo and hostile environment sexual harassment against Personal Connections Are Us, Inc. Quid pro quo sexual harassment includes demanding sexual favors in exchange for a promotion, raise, or job in a workplace. This specific type of sexual harassment occurred when Brittany’s manager, Dwayne Miller, told her to accompany him on a business trip where she would have to share a room…

their mental state entirely. Bullying is an intimidation technique used by a person who feels entitled or superior to another, and therefore repeatedly attacks either physically or verbally to intentionally cause harm upon the other person. While harassment is another form of intimidation, but mostly from afar and tends to not be physical, with the intent to essentially cause distress towards another. Schools globally are sometimes confused with what boundaries they can cross to ensure the…

to them to the point where committing suicide is what others think. Cyber harassment also makes enough harm to where the individual does not want to attend school anymore and feels like they are left alone when seen by many people that know what is happening and are helping the bully. Cyber harassment is not just one main way to harass a person online, in other words, cyber harassment has five different types of harassment within it. Each common type leads to the same amount of harm done to the…

He has dodged years of sexual harassment lawsuit but was finally penalized for his wrong doings. An internal investigator claimed “ it would not be appropriate for Mr. Charney to be reinstated as CEO or an officer or employee of company” (Lee). Unfortunately this company took too long to come to the realization that he should not be a part of the company. American Apparel has suffered tremendously due to the fact that it was such a long and ongoing scandal. Although they have suffered so much,…

It does not matter that I am a man because men can also get sexually harassed, so it is very crucial to know that not only women have rights against sexual harassment but guys do too. There are solutions to help yourself or any other individual you may know that is getting sexually harassed at work especially if they feel like they are trapped and cannot do anything about it. This is completely false, and there…

career. Indeed, sexual harassment does exist, but in a study comprising of 151,347 nurses, it was the least described form of harassment taking place in nursing (Spector, Zhou, & Xin Xuan, 2014). Most incidents of harassment took place in the form of nonphysical violence perpetuated by fellow coworkers (Spector, Coulter, Stockwell, & Matz, 2007). These events represented approximately 67% of all reported incidents in comparison to the 25% of reported occurrences of sexual harassment (Spector et…

Investigation into bullying and harassment policy Issue of bullying in light of adolescent development According to the Australian human rights commission (n.d.) 20% of males and 15% of females, aged between 8 and 18, reported being bullied at least once a week. It is important it to consider that these figure only account for bullying offences reported, many students do not report bullying. Bullying has many short term and long term effects. Victims often experience anxiety and depression…