What Supervisors Need to Know About Sexual Harassment
E-Seminar Description:
This interactive seminar is designed to train supervisors to protect both employers and potential victims. The program stresses the implementation of responsible employment practices and positive employment relations.
This seminar covers a wide range of issues and provides practical responses to realistic problems. The issues are presented using video re-enactments of workplace scenarios including a holiday party, a customer who makes sexual remarks to a receptionist, a female security guard "teased" by her male co-workers, a supervisor whose "touchy-feely" management style bothers an employee, and some demanding managers.
The issues and topics covered in the scenarios include:
What types of conduct can be considered sexual harassment
Whether a harasser must be an employee for conduct to be the employer's responsibility
An employee's duty to report sexual harassment in the workplace
The prohibition against retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment
The importance of a thorough, confidential investigation of complaints and follow-up after the investigation's completion
The importance of using objective, specific criteria in making employment decisions
How to handle behavior that may not be unlawful sexual harassment but is still inappropriate
The importance of proper communication with employees
The importance of maintaining objective documentation
Whether a woman who enters a traditionally male occupation must accept a sexually hostile work environment
Whether an employer can be responsible for conduct that takes place outside the office
The importance of uniformly enforcing sexual harassment policies
Whether men can be victims of sexual harassment
Whether women can be excluded from "social" functions where work is discussed
