Hostile Work Environment Harassment

The Outline

1- Introduction.

2- Hostile Work Environment Harassment.

A- The definition.

B- Examples of sexual conducts that cause the hostile work environment harassment.

C- Examples of non-sexual that cause the hostile work environment harassment.

3- Quid Pro Quo Harassment.

A- The definition.

B- Examples of quid pro quo harassment conduct.

4- Measures should be taken by managers/ business owners to prevent sexual harassment.

5- Measures should be undertaken by managers/ business owners when a claim of sexual harassment is reported to the company.

6- Summary

7- Resources

Introduction:

Companies and organizations need to provide a healthy work environment in order to grow and keep its productivity on track. Customers, employees, vendors, and anyone who is related in any way to the company or the organization daily workflow must feel safe and not threatened to perform the required job effectively and efficiently. However; there are some different issues that consider being a block to productivity and make doing the job impossible. Some examples of such issues could be discrimination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, unequal treatment, etc… This paper will take into details the sexual harassment issue only in the context of employment law.

In the legal sense, harassment in general is an intentional behavior that threats, disturbs, and upsets others and prevents them from doing their job normally. While sexual harassment is continuous and unwelcomed sexual advances in the workplace, where the consequences of refusing them by the victim are unfavorable and may be harmful. So it covers a wide range of behaviors that consider being offensive in its nature.

Most U.S. state law and federal law classify two types of sexual harassment in a work setting: 1) Hostile work environment harassment, and 2) quid pro quo harassment. Both are unlawful harassments and consider being a form of discrimination that violates...