PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SEXUAL HARASSMENT

III. Organizationa and Social Issues Related to Secual Harassment

C. Reasonableness and the reasonable person

IV. Application, Confidentiality, and Organizational Policies

A. Sexual harassment policies and confidentiality

B. Elements of effective sexual harassment policies

V. Sexual Harassment and Ethics and Organizational Theory

VI. Evaluating Sexual harassment in the Organization

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SEXUAL HARASSMENT

This research reviews issues of sexual harassment relevant to a municipal government with approximately 2,000 employees serving a community with approximately 125,000 inhabitants. The issues relevant to sexual harassment affect all of the human resource management policies of a municipal government organization, as well as risk management policies.

Sexual harassment was not prominent in the initial applications of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Over time, interpretations of the Title VII ban

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anization (August & Quintero, 2001). Organization and Social Issues Related to Sexual Harassment Several specific issues have emerged regarding hostile-environment harassment. Topics include gender-based discrimination, the severity and pervasiveness of discrimination, the reasonableness of a harassment complaint, and harassment's effects on employment. Gender and Sex Hostile-environment sexual harassment can be nonsexual in nature. "In other words, the environment can be negatively focused against a gender without reference to sexual behavior. Judicial rulings related to Title VII bar any harassment or other unequal treatment of an employee that would not occur except for the sex of the employee (Lee & Greenlaw, 1995). In the street maintenance of a municipal government, as an example, female flag personnel at street maintenance sites may experience hostile-environment sexual harassment through the use by men of vulgar names for female employees or otherwise harassing female employees for no reason other than that they are women. Slapping a woman on the buttocks and referring to women as being intellectually inferior to men also creates a hostile-environment (Costigan, Ilter, & Beman, 1998). In its 1993 harassment gui
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Approximate Word count = 1947
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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