Contemporary Management Capabilities | Concept of Sexual Harassment

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The paper aims to describe the concept of sexual harassment considering the scenario of the
current position of the CEO. It demonstrated the concept with related theories and approaches
of workplace harassments and inequality. Additionally, the paper also mentioned some
recommendation to resolve any situation related to the negative concept of sexual harassment
at workplace.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
The Epidemiology..................................................................................................................4
Inequality theory....................................................................................................................4
Disparate treatment theory.....................................................................................................5
Opposite-sex harassment........................................................................................................5
Recommendation....................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Workplace is observed with various conflicts and sexual harassment is one of the
crucial among all. However, this practice is considered as common attribute of workplace
characteristics in the domain of organisational tolerance. Cohn, (2019) mentioned that sexual
harassment can occur in organisation in case of existence of an asymmetry of incentives
among the supervisors and the common workers. On the other hand, Monk, (2015) mentioned
that there are some negative characterised supervisors take advantage of sexual favour to
ensure positive performance appraisal or bonus linked with production. However, there are
laws that ensure workplace safety for all the employees irrespective age and gender. The laws
and regulations can treat the act of sexual harassment as a consequence of discrimination
depended on sex, which is an offense against one’s dignity or challenge regarding the
workplace health and safety. Hence, the aim of the study is to investigate about the concept of
workplace harassment with due regards to various theories and framework. The study will
provide the scope to analyze the given scenario about the present CEO with the theoretical
framework. It will not cover the generalized concept of sexual harassment and its
consequences. The following section will help to consider the present scenario with the help
of academic theories related to harassment. Additionally, the paper will mention some
recommendation for the HR department of the organization to any kind of issues regarding
harassments within the organization.
Discussion
The present scenario is a crucial one as it is related to the behavioral issues with the
present scenario. The stories of harassing incidents in the previous office is also getting viral
in the media. However, the CEO is consistently denying the incidents and the ex-employees
also providing unique details about the incidents (Ford, 2014). Hence, as a leader it is