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Organizations Law Assignment

   

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Organizations Law1.The action to be taken in the current situation:A case of sexual harassment in the workplace has been reported to the CEO of the Foxproduction. As a CEO of the company of Fox Production that is working in the field of print TVand online production[in Australia] and employing several female model the first and foremostduty of the CEO will be to ensure the safety of all the women employees of the organization.As per the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) the employee Parvey Lichtenstein who is workingas a photographer with the company is sexually harassing the women model hired by thecompany. Parvey Lichtenstein is making unwelcome conduct and making inappropriate remarksto the hired women model and also touching he inappropriately and all these actions arerecognized as sexual harassment as per the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).The behavior thathas been allegedly done by Parvey Lichtenstein with the hired model is an unlawful behavior asthe behavior is a kind of bullying that terrorize a person so much that she fails to behavenormally and to take part normally in the social and public activities.The behaviour of Parvey Lichtenstein is also leads to the violation of the Equal Opportunity Act1984 as he is making a behavior with his fellow women colleagues without thinking of the aspectthat his behavior can make them to feel humiliated and traumatized. Therefore as a CEO of the organization Gabrielle Brown should first advice to the humanresource manager Sally Bentham to talk to each of the women employees of the organizationindividually in presence of a women counselor so that they can easily share their workingexperiences in the organization and if they are feeling any kind of mental insecurity sandharassment then the issue will also be recorded and will be presented in a report format to the

CEO so that necessary measures should be taken for stopping any possible future scope sexualharassment by any of the male employees of the organization.As a part of taking stringent action against any reported case of sexual harassment the CEOshould release a circular regarding the possible disciplinary actions that will be taken against amale employee if it is proved that he was involved in the unlawful act of sexual harassment andsuch actions involves enquiry & suspension from work at the preliminary stage and in the finalstage it may lead to the dismissal and even financial penalty and jail as such kind of unlawful actbadly harms the reputation of the of the organization("Sexual harassment | Australian HumanRights Commission", 2018).Such kind of action will help the CEO to ensure the mental comfort and security to the womenemployees of the organization and will also spread the message within the employees that theorganization has a zero tolerance policy for the unlawful acts like sexual harassments and is allset to comply with the acts of Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) and Equal Opportunity Act1984 for preventing the acts like workplace sexual harassment and issue of gender inequality.In pursuance of the above trait the CEO of the company Gabrielle Brown in consultation of thehuman resource manager Sally Bentham have dismissed Parvey Lichtenstein who is accused ofsexual harassment on acquisition of the violation of the employment contract as well asemployees code of conduct that strongly follows the above mention laws in regard of the aspectof sexual harassment in the workplace("Sexual harassment", 2018).2.The actions to be taken by Fox production for the improvement of thepublic relationsThe female model employee by the Fox Production who has received abusive behavior whichtantamount to sexual harassment not only reported to the human resource manager of thecompany but he has taken the issues to the media and court and has decided to sue the company

for justice with strong legal help even if the company has dismissed the accused person on thebasis of the allegationThis action of the lady employee who received the sexual abuse is definitely has dented theimage of the company. To recover the image of the company the following actions can be takenfor improving the public relation as well as public image of the organizationThe organization should share the detail process of ensuring the security to the womenemployees of the company with the general public so that the general public as well as newemployees get the image that the organization is a safe place to work.The process of offering security to the women employees’ of the organization is as follows:All the women employees are free to talk with the human resource, manager if they are facingany kind of issue related to sexual abuse or gender discrimination. If the employees do not wantto disclose her identity then full support will be given to the person Johnson (2017)..After receiving the allegation the organization will hold a secret enquiry with respect to the issueand the accused person will be under scanner with respect to his behavior. The wholeinvestigation process will be reviewed by the managers of the division of internal affairs.If the allegation is proved then the person will be dismissed from the company just like ParveyLichtenstein due to the violation of the company code of conduct and employee contract.In an extreme case the organization can ask for financial penalty and can handover the person topthe police if it thinks that such action is legitimate. The financial penalty will be collected withthe justification that the person who is making a bad image of the organization by his act amongthe general public must be punished Talesh (2015)..The promise of actions to be taken by the organization at the event of a reported case of sexualmisconduct at the workplace by publishing a public statement in the different news media willhelp the organization to establish the fact that the organization is well concerned for ensuring thesafety and security of their women employees and the organization works with ethics of showingzero tolerance against the reported cases of sex abuse or gender discrimination. The act ofsharing the work culture and working ethics will help the organization to promote as an

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