Abuse In The Workplace

Chaos and challenging environments can contribute to bad behavior in adults and adolescence. In the workplace, the majority of employees go to work every day wanting to do their job to best of their ability. Most take pride in their work, look for a way to advance up the corporate ladder, or just want to feel accomplished. A chaotic workplace mixed with bad management create abusive behavior. In the article, “ Power, Status and Abuse at Work” by Steven H. Lopez et al. the key to harassment in the workplace is that it is caused by chaos and working in an environment without organizational structure and procedures. “...two such organizational features that can create motivations for potential perpetrators [of harassment]: chaotic organizational

The Office was an NBC Mockumentary that for nine years followed the day-to-day operations of a mid range paper supply company called Dunder Mifflin. The office manager was an eccentric, at times wildly misunderstood man named Michael Scott. Throughout his time as office manager, Michael led his employees through the gamut of human emotions. In some situations, in the real world, many of the situations that Michael found himself in may have ended with him on the receiving end of a lawsuit. Michael had a particularly challenging time resisting the urge to sexually harass his employees, not just the female employees, but the male ones as well. Due to the numerous inappropriate incidences that Michael caused in his own office, I feel strongly that Michael Scott was not fit to be the office manager at Dunder Mifflin.

Bullying in the workplace has always been an issue that has not been given much importance. It is indeed a problem that should be addressed by the concerned personnel because it can result in many health and safety issues, especially when nurses are bullied at their workplace. From the beginning of times, people who are deployed at a senior post to tend to look down upon the students or new people who have just started work. Nursing is also one of the professions in which the fresh graduates or students are bullied to the extent that they feel that they would not be able to face their seniors. They start developing inferiority complex and are unable to perform their job well. When they are taunted by their seniors and preceptors about their lack of knowledge and experience, their confidence is shattered. This implies that when they are handling a case, they are not confident if they are doing the right thing or not. In this tussle, they sometimes do not even perform the task they were really good at and put the health and safety of the patient at stake.

For the last fifteen years, I worked in the medical field as a doctor’s assistant. I received a call from one of my former co-workers at another clinic in Needham MA. My coworker and I both endured a lot of petty abuse from the practitioners and patients while working at our previous job. Jennifer (my co-worker) and I worked well together, and we had a mutual respect and rapport; we agreed on all common issues in regard to how a medical practice should function. Jennifer recently started a new job as an office manager for an urgent care clinic, and she asked me to join her at the clinic so we could organize and clean-up the practice that were being managed previously by the doctor himself. Jennifer, as a new office manager at this clinic,

Sexual harassment is discrimination that involves any uninvited comments, exploits, or behavior regarding sex, gender, or sexual orientation. If any type of violation is made by a co-worker, a boss, a work acquaintance, or even a non-employee such as a client, vendor, or contractor, this will be considered unlawful sexual harassment within the work environment. Sexual harassment can create a hostile and uneasy work environment. Sexual harassment includes inappropriate verbal advances, unwelcomed physical behavior that creates an aggressive, hostile, intimidating or malicious work environment for employees. Sexual harassment includes sending suggestive e-mails, notes, and

Through researching hostile working environments I discovered a situation that occurred in 2006 in the central New York Psychiatric Center. in this case, Christine bergerson, 10 months after losing her job in January 2006 decided to file a complaint against the State Office of Mental Health. Christine begin working as a security hospital treatment assistant at The Institute in 2004. While working for the Institute Kama bergersen was continuously placed on probation and was never able to move forward or become a permanent employee because her reviews continuously stated that she needed to learn to get along with her other coworkers.Her claims state that she was subjected to work in a sexually hostile work environment, and that she was retaliate

In 2016, there was research survey in Phoenix, AZ on employees. 75% reported some kind of abuse in the workplace, weather being targeted or as a witness. Thomas Ingersoll’s quote explains that if you give a man power, it will show their true character. I agree with his statement. When some people are given authority, they choose to abuse it, while others choose to put it to the use of helping others or spreading a positive message. One prime example is Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King used his broad platform to shed light on helping the entire African American community. He had around 2 million supporters and instead of telling them to use violence to spread their message, he led them in the ways of peaceful protesting. On the other hand, there

What would you do if you were the victim? Where would you go for help?

Being able to gain trust from one person is a difficult task, coming from another unit and being able to gain the trust of a team that has already been formed is even harder. Having a incident like sexual harassment and sexual gestures happen within the unit can have demoralizing effects on the effectiveness of the team. The hostile working environment may hinder some hard-working soldiers and cause them to not give maximum effort. It may also make the victim(s) feel as if they are not appreciated and their performance may reflect their recent feelings towards the situation. Also these negative actions may cause a fellow soldier to relive a certain situation that happened to them previously.

One article covered by CTV news involved a female officer (Const. Heather McWilliam) who filed a human rights complaint involving workplace sexual harassment against her Toronto police supervisor. This case is similar to Constable Eva Hernandez’s case because they both involve women of the same rank who have to endure sexual harassment in the workplace and who have both chosen to speak out about their struggles. McWilliam was victim to constant sexual harassment over many years and was called degrading names as well as had many sexual jokes made around her. This is similar to how Hernandez was called “butch dyke” and “Niña loca” by her male coworkers. Unlike Hernandez, McWilliam also says her supervising officer passed around photos from her

Racial Harassment – When a person is threatened, treated unfairly, verbally or physically abused based on their color, race, nationality, culture, ethnic or national origin, etc. Victims may even experience attacks on their personal property.

Sexual Harassment is a behavior. It is defined as unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature. For example, a man whistles at a woman when she walks by. Or a woman looks a man up and down when he walks towards her. Subtle Sexual Harassment is a behavior but not a legal term. It is unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature that if allowed to continue could create a Hostile Work Environment for the recipient. For example, unwelcome sexual comments, jokes, innuendoes. This type of sexual harassment occurs when a co-worker or supervisor in the workplace makes sexual advances or comments to an employee that, while not affecting promotions or the future of the employee's job, makes the working environment

Ms Decola, she stated that she has been abused by her ex-husband six months ago. She said has filed for divorce and now she is going to become homeless and will lose her medical insurance.

As seen in the case study, a court decision may be one way for any company to legally define what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace, but there are many ways to define sexual harassment. Everyone has different views and tolerance levels towards sexual harassment. When a case of sexual harassment occurs in a workplace, however, it comes down to how the courts define sexual harassment. The Supreme Court defines sexual harassment to be unlawful in two ways. “The first type involves sexual harassment that results in a tangible employment action;” this is referred to as quid pro quo. For example, if an employee complies with the harasser’s request, then she will get a raise. This unlawful act is usually presented in the workplace by a person who has an upper hand, such as a manager, to ensure that s/he will get what s/he wants. Employees are often victimized by fear that they will not get promoted or that they will get fired. They also dread that if a complaint is filed, it will not be handled correctly. “This instance of sexual harassment always involves another violation of employee rights; [sic] wrongful termination.” This would occur, for instance, when “a supervisor . . . tells a subordinate that . . . she must be sexually cooperative with [him] or . . . she will be fired, and who then indeed does fire the subordinate for not submitting” (“U.S. Supreme Court Defines”). [schwinlaw.com]

There are federal laws put in position to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Most employees sometimes don’t even realize what sexual harassment is are when they are committing this violation. On the flip side an employee may not realized when they are being sexually harassed and when is the appropriate time to speak up. Education on sexual harassment has increased within the workplace as cases are more public and fines are getting steeper.