Sexual Harassment:
A Guide to a Harassment-Free Workplace
can have an immediate and significantly positive impact on the ways in which your organization manages the issue of sexual harassment. Every chapter of this powerful resource can affect the way you handle—and preempt!—the possibility of sexual harassment in your organization.
Here are just a few of the key topics covered in this leading resource that are often overlooked or even unknown to those setting an organization’s policies:
The hidden costs of harassment
How top executives set the tone
The serious extent of the risk
Personal liability
Why hasn’t sexual harassment training worked?
Who to train and when to train
How to properly investigate harassment
How to handle the reluctant employee
Who should investigate?
Determining credibility
Understanding and avoiding defamation
Protecting the accuser
and
the accused during the investigation
And much more!
Sexual harassment may expose employers to automatic liability under certain circumstances, and regardless of legal liability, the negative publicity, high cost of turnover, lowered employee morale, and the potential expenses associated with lawsuits are just some of the devastating effects sexual harassment can have on the workplace.
Every organization’s best defense is a proper offense, and
is the absolutely necessary starting point.