Let’s face it, no one expects a mandated harassment-training program to actually change workplace behavior or employee team dynamics. Despite 30 years of corporate-sponsored harassment training, we ...
A government watchdog agency has found key gaps in federal agencies’ support to training programs aimed at preventing incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace. Federal agencies are required to ...
Across the world, governments are tightening regulations, employees are demanding accountability, and organizations are being held to higher standards than ever before. Workplace harassment isn’t just ...
A primary objective of a business owner or manager is to maintain a safe, comfortable workplace with a minimum amount of interpersonal conflict. Achieving that objective necessitates providing ...
The House and Senate have moved to adopt mandatory sexual harassment awareness training. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) want to additionally reform the way Congress ...
As more victims speak out about their allegations, employers — including NPR — are having to confront the failure of their sexual harassment training and reporting systems. Even trainers themselves ...
Workplace harassment is behavior, conduct, actions and statements made to or about an individual or a group of individuals, which creates an uncomfortable work environment for the targeted persons and ...
Educating employees about sexual harassment — what it is, that it is unlawful, that your organization won’t tolerate it, how to prevent it, how to respond to it, etc. — can contribute to safer and ...
Trainings’ use of ‘cartoonish, unrealistic’ examples could be partially to blame for men’s subsequent dismissal of allegations, says Berkeley professor Sexual harassment courses aimed at preventing ...
Laura Hanson thought the sexual harassment training for legislative staffers at the Oregon Capitol would be a unifying event: a clear signal to everyone that harassment in Salem was not tolerated.
Dated corporate videos, formulaic tick-box surveys and lacklustre presentations: sexual harassment training needs a rethink, writes Claire Lampen. A reckoning over sexual harassment at work may ...