Uber and Sexual Harassment

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Uber and Sexual Harassment
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Abstract
Uber is one of the leading brands of app cabs and also providing several other services such
as food delivery and networking development as well. Headquartered in San Francisco,
California, the company has been facing the problem of sexual harassment in the past few
years. A lot of employees have resigned due to this problem and a lot others were forced to
resign. Thus, an analysis has been conducted to establish the fact of the anger in the people
due to this particular issue that has been happening repeatedly in the organization. It has been
observed from the analysis that the respondents have been quite agitated on this issue.
Despite of gender, race and income group, the anger of the people towards sexual harassment
has been the same. This indicates that the company will be facing serious attrition issues if
they do not consider the complaints of the employees seriously in the near future.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
Problem Identification............................................................................................................5
Research Aim.........................................................................................................................5
Research Objective and Hypothesis...........................................................................................5
Method, Sampling and Approach..............................................................................................6
Data Analysis and Summarisation...........................................................................................10
Synthesis, Interpretation, Conclusion, Managerial Implication and Limitations.....................13
References................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction
Uber or more specifically Uber Technologies Inc. is a company that involves services
such as taxi-cab, ride sharing, bicycle sharing, food delivery as well as transportation
networking. The comp-any has its headquarters in San Francisco, California. Uber has spread
its operations all across the globe in more than 785 metropolitan cities. The services of the
company can be accessed only with the help of their websites or mobile apps. Recently, there
has been several issues with the company on the account of Sexual Harassment. There has
been a lot of complaints among the rides as well as the employees of the company regarding
the sexual harassment. Thus, this study has been conducted to understand and identify the
issues on sexual harassment faced by the customers so that the company can serve better.
Literature Review
There have been multiple allegations regarding sexual harassment on the company
Uber. This has put the reputation and the corporate culture of the company at stake. As a
result of these complaints regarding sexual harassment and discrimination, quite a large
number of senior executives have been terminated from their jobs. Further, in the year 2017,
the Uber Board has put a lot of pressure on the CEO of the company to resign from the post
as he has been unable to manage the crisis regarding the allegations on the serious issues of
sexual harassment and discrimination (Levin 2018). Instead of the allegations to be abolished,
there has been significant increase in the problem in his tenure of work as the CEO of the
company. All these allegations led to the issue of the work environment of the company to be
“Toxic” (BBC News, 2018). IT has also been found that the regulatory schemes of the
company have been evaded and there has also been failure from the organization to provide
the customers as well the employees welfare and safety. The company is also an economy
sharing company which in other terms is also known as collaborative consumption. This