Management (14th Edition)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134527604
Author: Stephen P. Robbins, Mary A. Coulter
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 8RDQ
Summary Introduction
To determine:
The sexual harassment at a work place and the ways to minimize it.
Introduction:
Sexual harassmentconstitutes any person experiencing unwanted sexual advance, obscene gesture from any known or unknown person.
Sexual harassment is a type of predication that mostly involve a person experiencing unwanted sexual advance, favor or request, obscene gesture from another person in a work place. Even attempt to touch, remarks, and lame joke may also be depicted as sexual harassment.
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