Over spring break, I read five very interesting articles attaining to sexual harassment. I learned a lot about sexual harassment from reading these articles, and I believe that that it I important for athletic trainers and other health-care professionals to understand and know how to identify acts of sexual harassment. I believe that these articles will be very beneficial to me in the future, when I become a certified athletic trainer, and am interacting with other co-workers, athletes, health-care professionals and as well as other individuals in a professional manner, and respectful manner. Also, the articles provided me with information on what I should and should not do as an employee who hears about some sort of sexual harassment taking …show more content…
When talking about the profession of athletic training, the first thing that always came to my mind regarding sexual harassment was an act made by a professional athletic trainer towards a student- athlete. After reading this articles, I learned that sexual harassment does not always only effect a student-athlete, but it may also effect other individuals, including “coaches, athletic administrators, certified athletic trainers, athletic training students, therapists, and other health-care professionals as well”.1 The statistic that struck me the most when reading the “Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in Athletic Training” article was that during a survey of 525 undergraduates, almost 29 percent of men reported that they were sexually harassed by a collegiate professor at least one time”.2 Whenever I hear of sexual harassment, my first instinct is that the victim of the sexual harassment is a female, but after reading the articles I realized that many males are also affected by sexual …show more content…
According to the articles Jamie’s boss Mike Rollo was allegedly sexually harassing Jamie, “verbally calling her names”.4 As an employee as well as being someone’s boss, I believe the person in charge should be the individual who is stopping occurrences like this from happening, rather than being the individual who is sexually harassing one of their employees. The person who is highest in charge should always be actually professional, in order to set a standard example for the rest of the staff. I believe when an individual who sees one of their bosses acting a specific way, then the other individuals will act that same as well, leading to other staff members calling Jamie Whited names as
Sexual harassment has always been a problem whether it be in the workplace, sports teams, in the military, at a school, or in public places like the subway, at the store, or in a restaurant. It has become an even larger problem in the workplace than anywhere else because it makes it hard for some to work whether they are the one being harassed or even if they are an innocent bystander. Yes in most cases it can be as simple as just telling the person to stop but in other cases doing so may cause them to get upset about it because they are being turned down become more aggressive. This aggression may be verbal but can also become physical and can lead to larger problems than just sexual harassment. In other cases the person being harassed is
Sexual harassment is a demeaning practice, one that constitutes a profound affront to the dignity of the employees forced to endure it. By requiring an employee to contend with unwelcome sexual actions or explicit sexual demands, sexual harassment in the workplace attacks the dignity and self-respect of the victim both as an employee and as a human being. Sexual harassment is well defined as an unwelcome sexual request for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. In many countries, sexual harassment is considered a form of sexual abuse and employment discrimination. Sexual harassment is most prevalent is organizations both professional and academic, though it can occur almost anywhere.
Sexual assault, abuse, and rape by athletes is a devastating crime. These crimes by themselves are horrendous, but when committed by athletes there are many different factors involved. Through extensive research this paper will show contributing factors that may result in assault, abuse, or rape by athletes. Special treatment for athletes throughout their career, belief in sexual male dominance, and the role of alcohol are all important factors. Other crucial factors are the attitudes and responses of: society, juries, victims, coaches, and athletes. This paper will explore all these issues and show that changes need to be made in all the areas to combat the growing percentages of sport assault, abuse, and rape against women.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze briefly key issues involved in sexual harassment in workplaces using a case study titled ‘Harassment at Bradmore Electric’ as the basis of the analysis. Prior to analyzing the case study, a brief definition and description of sexual harassment is deemed necessary. Cases and reported incidence of sexual harassments have become rampant and escalating in workplaces and in educational settings. This
For a policy or set of grievance procedures to be effective, all employees, from supervisors to line workers, administrators to custodial staff, need to be knowledgeable about the company's policy and grievance procedures. Sexual harassment training needs to be very explicit in
You are sitting at your desk at work. Your boss comes up behind you and starts rubbing your shoulders and telling you that you are doing good job at work. Your boss starts rubbing harder and saying inappropriate things. What do you do? You report the sexual harassment to the Human Resources Department at your company.
Results from the case study information indicate that the Sexual Harassment Prevention Training program “achieved the goal of increasing the likelihood that attendees would contact a manager and/or human resources if sexually harassed. The training program also achieved the goal of decreasing the likelihood that trainees would ignore sexually harassing behavior” (Moskowitz, 2008).
It is perhaps an exaggeration to recommend that no hypothetical work has been done around the area of Sexual Harassment, as the primary systematic attempt to outline theoretical space of Sexual Harassment and build up a complete classification system had started in the year 1980 (Fitzgerald et al. 2010). Sexual Harassment is defined as the unprompted male conduct that asserts a women’s sex role over her function as employee or intimidation of a sexual nature or the inappropriate promises of rewards in return for sexual favors (Fitzgerald 1990). In most of the modern cultures, it is very illegal and illegitimate to intimidate a person because of person’s sex. Sexual harassment is an issue which has been prevailing in the current workplace and is a major attribute that prompts the effectiveness of an organization as it plays a main role in the happiness of the employees which in turn results in goals of overall company to be achieved (Reese et al. 2004). Employers should make this a top priority and see that it is not effecting the performance of employees to achieve the goals of the organization (Collier 1995). Information had been gathered through a survey which included females from two diverse cultures who worked in a public-sector company. The results showed that inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment were co-related and harassment based on gender was a bridge amongst the two behaviors. In addition, these practices tend to happen again and
Sexual Harassment is a very serious matter that should not be taken lightly it impacts a lot of individuals and influences harm.
Despite the fact that various laws define sexual harassment differently, its definition in the business environment is common to all environments. Most managers seek to control and prevent this kind of harassment not only to provide a proper working environment for the employees but also to maintain a strict code of ethics in the organization. Management intervention is necessary since most sexual harassment cases are undertaken by the supervisors and
Within this piece of work I will explain the following document about sexual harassment and describe the differences between the comparisons of how it effect’s the life’s of them who have experienced the horrors of sexual harassment.
This essay is based on sexual harassment in the workplace. It gives examples of what sexual harassment is and knowing how to identify sexual harassment in an organization. This essay takes information from different articles describing sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. It gives scenarios and examples of sexual harassment. It also explains different resources that can benefit an organization to properly train their employees about sexual harassment. This is an informal essay with key facts and that will help to better understand sexual harassment within an organization.
Prevention training is another helpful solution when dealing with sexual harassment complaints in an organization. Each organization should hold educational seminars that are mandatory for all employees; both upper and lower level employees; to ensure that everyone knows what to do if they see, hear, know or are a victim of sexual harassment. One major component of this training is to explain what sexual harassment is and what behaviors are considered sexual harassment. Most people have different definitions of what is considered sexual harassment so creating a universal definition within the organization will prevent any misunderstandings in the future. Another step that should be taken in
Think about having to be forced or coerced to demeaning and misappropriate conduct day in and out because you fear losing your job or being demoted to a less desirable position. Focus on how many victims of sexual harassment underwent calling out sick so that they would not have to be manipulated into doing acts that were degrading and immoral with someone they believed they could trust, like their supervisor. Moreover, walking into an atmosphere where work is not fun, but stressful and causes you much anguish and dissatisfaction, only because you are having to undergo much discomfort and shameful acts. Further, think about the thought of walking into your office everyday in anxiety and fear because you need your job and want your job. However, but you did not ask for the unwelcome sexual gestures, inappropriate touching, pressure to perform certain unlawful duties or be given stipulations such as do as you are told and instructed or be terminated. All the more, this is what many of the past case victims were accustomed to and subjected to each day while in the workplace. Consequently, this is what many victims of sexual harassment endure each day because they are too afraid to stand up and say anything to anyone because of fear of not being believed, afraid of losing their jobs, or generally because they were not sure what could be done.
Sexual harassment in organisations is a critical issue as it has many negative implications for employees and organisations across multiple domains. Empirical research suggests that sexual harassment has a wide range of impacts on productivity, organisation’s competitiveness, job satisfaction, high absenteeism and staff turnover (Birinxhikaj & Guggisber, 2017; Willness, Steel & Lee, 2007). This essay provides an insight to sexual harassment in organisations, especially for women. It will also explain the causes and effects of sexual harassment. Furthermore, it explores the benefits and risk of logical interventions to reduce sexual harassment and conclude with one preferred intervention.