Sexual harassment, according to Oxford dictionary (n.d.), is involving "the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks of a man or a woman in a workplace or other professional or social situation". The weight of counteracting sexual harassment in a company lays on the employer. According to "Sexual Harassment: General Information" (8 January 2010) in the United States, Canada, India and in some European Union Member States, managers are in charge of giving their representatives a workplace that does not segregate and is free of harassment.
According to Sexual Harassment Manual (n.d.), in case a sexual harassment takes place in a company a certain list of actions should be taken and here is a performance action plan for a company to follow when providing discipline in response to complaints of sexual harassment.
1. Meet the individual making the complain. Get the truths.
2. Figure out whether an internal examination is required. Would it be able to be settled or do you require further data?
3. Decide the way of the protestation before starting an informal examination. What organization arrangement, rule or method is included?
4. Arrange the examination. Figure out who will explore, the order of the meetings and inquiries to be inquired.
5. Lead the examination. Be readied, stretch secrecy and accentuate that no conclusion
has yet been come to.
6. Conduct a compelling interview. Begin with wide inquiries, acquire point by point data and wrap up with extreme inquiries intended to inspire pertinent realities.
7. Before shutting the meeting, survey answers; request any extra data and stress reality and secrecy.
8. Survey believability. Make notes; survey order of occasions, manner, affirmations, disavowal, clashing articulations and believability.
9. Make suggestions in the wake of finishing your investigation. Were approaches, rules or methods disregarded? Were any laws broken? Consider worker's organization history. What, assuming any, discipline ought to be taken?
10. Follow the organization's strategies with respect to documentation. Disperse discoveries to suitable individuals and report legitimate records.
References
Sexual Harassment (n.d.) Oxford dictionery. Retrieved from en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sexual_harassment
Sexual Harassment Manual (n.d.) PBOA.com, Risk services. Retrieved from www.pboa.com/forms/loss_control/Sexual%20Harassment%20Manual.pdf
Sexual Harassment: General information (8 January 2010) Stop violence against women. A project of advocates of human rights. Retrieved from www.stopvaw.org/Sexual_Harassment2
