Crossover Effects of Sexual Harassment

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Introduction:
The aim of this report is to discuss the response towards a situation in which the CEO of
a company is accused fora genuine case of sexual harassment. This case is related to the
leadership practicing unethical measures against two different persons in the previous company
that may affect the morality of the employees of present company also. In this particular situation
responding in an effective way is necessary do that the expectations from the leadership is not
marred by misunderstanding or miscommunication. This will be discussing the situation faced by
the company due to the acquisition of unethical practice by one of the topmost leaders of the
company and continuous pressure by the media to review the situation. This paper will also
analyse the theories needed for the situation analysis and make empirically supported
recommendations for the word so that they can make decisions to solve this type of issue without
much time.
Discussion:
Sexual harassment is an unethical practice that may take place in any place and time. This is a
type of harassment technique which implicitly or explicitly detail sexual overtones and include
and welcoming promise of the rewards in exchange for the sexual favours. Sexual harassment
can include a range of actions starting from transpiration to sexual assault. This type of incidents
can take place in the different social settings like at home, School, workplace and many other
places where there is a difference of gender can be found. Among these the sexual harassment
taking place in the workplace is more dangerous because this can in many persons career if not
handled properly (Quick & McFadyen, 2017). Sexual harassment allegation can waste the
leadership competencies gif associated with high level management. This reduces mortality and
ethical policies of the organisations making it insecure and less productive when there is an

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acquisition of sexual harassment taking place against a CEO, then the problem must be serious.
In the present company where the person is working as CEO, need to follow certain norms and
the company policy. As this situation was not revealed before hand therefore he has got the
chance to be placed in the new company. The accusations of practicing illegal initiative can
question the efficacy of the leader and his capacity to motivate employees. It is not clear that the
accusations are right or not there has not been any legal investigation started with it but the
victims have detailed the incidents separately to the media that has become a viral news at
present. This can hamper the reputation of the company presently and the stakeholders feel risk
to invest in the organisation. Similarly the employees May feel confused and question the
company policy to take strict measure against the accused leader. This will break the moral
understanding of the employees and entire organisational culture will be devastated. This is the
reason why perfect response to this situation has to be taken. As a manager the first and foremost
initiative that must be taken is to start investigation as early as possible. This will enable the
present Company to answer the immediate question of the stakeholders and the employees about
the reality of accusation. In addition to this investigation wale enhance safety needs of the
employees in one hand and support organisational culture to be maintained in an ethical path
(Xin et al., 2018). In this respect various sources has to be employed so that the actual reason and
situation can be revealed.
Only investigation will not solve this situation but in response to this threat of losing customer
base and stakeholder support the company needs to establish a culture. The employees in the
organisation we have a false sense that sexual harassment cannot happen in the organisation
because there is no history of this issue previously. This is the reason why the management needs
to take initiative to convey perfect messages to the Employees about the policies of the