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Title: Workplace Sexual Harassment
Description: Well-detailed and comprehensive note that will give you an understanding of how both male and female can stop sexual harassment whether in the workplace or not. I totally aced this course.

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DEFINITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Sexual harassment takes
place when an individual

engages in unwanted
behavior of a sexual nature
...


EXAMPLES OF HARASSMENT WITHIN THE WORKPLACE
• Sharing sexually inappropriate images or videos, such

as pornography or salacious gifts, with co-workers
• Displaying inappropriate sexual images or posters in the
workplace
• Making inappropriate sexual gestures
• Staring in a sexually suggestive or offensive manner, or
whistling
...


 PHYSICAL
• Assaulting an individual for any reason
• Touching may include massaging an individual on any body part without
first asking permission
• Grabbing a person’s clothes with the intention of ripping them off or
revealing body parts
• Caressing a person’s arm, hand, or any body part in a sexual way
• Grabbing a person’s behind, breasts, or genitals without permission

• Hugging a person without permission
• Trying to kiss someone without asking
• Making bodily contact with another person in a sexual way
• Cornering a victim with one’s body
• Rubbing one’s genitals on a person
...


• Digestive or gastrointestinal issues
• Panic attacks
• Development of phobias
• Fatigue
• Sleep disturbances
• Eating disturbances
• Drug/alcohol use
• Poor hygiene or self-care
...

 If you're uncomfortable with the situation or against a direct approach, send

an email, letter, or memo to the harasser
...

 Remember to document everything that's part of the incident, keep all text

messages, Facebook entries, tweets, letters or any other interaction to
support your claim, follow-up, complaint, and investigation
...

 If you're a member of a union, you have another outlet
...
FUN TEASING
SEXUAL HARASSMENT

FUN TEASING

• Hurts

• Feels good

• Causes anger

• Flattering

• Shame

• Empowering

• Guilt
• Frustration
• Disempowers
• Lowers self esteem
• Enjoyed by the harasser, not the victim

• Makes me feel:
 Happy
 Attractive

 Accepted
• Enhances self esteem
• Is enjoyed by both persons

WHY VICTIMS DON’T REPORT SEXUAL HARASSMENT
• Emotional pain
• They feel ashamed
• Fear of being blamed
• Feeling partly responsible
• They do not trust the system
• They are afraid of the harasser or others
• They do not want to get the harasser into trouble
• They do not know how to report the harassment

ROLE OF HR IN PREVENTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT
 Actively participate in policy drafting

 Display the organization’s policy in conspicuous places in the organization and
intranet
...


 Ensure that the complaining process is easy
Title: Workplace Sexual Harassment
Description: Well-detailed and comprehensive note that will give you an understanding of how both male and female can stop sexual harassment whether in the workplace or not. I totally aced this course.