Sexual Harrassment Training and Development.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

Sexual harassment includes a range of behavior of mild transgression and the annoyances to the serious abuses , which can even involve the forced sexual activity . It can occur in a variety of circumstances including : the harasser can be anyone such as a supervisor , a client co- worker , teacher , a friend , a stranger or even a student the victim does not have to be the person directly harassed but can be anyone who finds the behavior offensive and is affected while the adverse effects on the

victim are common , this does not have to be the case for the behavior to be unlawful the victim can be a male or female the harasser does not have to be an opposite sex and lastly the harasser may be completely unaware that his or her behavior is offensive or constitutes sexual harassment or may be completely unaware that the actions are unlawful

In the training of new employees based on the sexual harassment training and development the government should first look at the strategic plans that need to be implemented in to encourage the members have the willing to gain knowledge that could be helpful and the strategic initiatives is to design the plan in such a way that it becomes more valuable to the learners as this increases the desire of the people to know the need to undergo such training . In the preventing of the sexual harassment then the employees and the company is protected and the more the company prevents it the more it proves to be serious on the behavior of the employees and the employer . This can be seen in that the employers may be liable for the sexual harassment damages even when they were unaware that the harassment took place getting the employees trained is a better idea to do away with harassments that may occur and lastly the laws surrounding sexual harassment overlap and the relation to other anti- discrimination and the hostile workplace regulations , including those covering the harassment or the unfair treatment based on the race , age , disability or the national origins Bates , 2002

The action steps an employee has to undertake are : one should know the requirements- investigate the wording , posting and the distribution of the anti- harassment information and the related rules which may vary by the company size one needs to get the training- the training of the employees should be considered with a lot of care and every one has to be given the necessary guidelines there should be the development of company policy- where by details take careful writing , but the message of the policy is simple and include the steps for filling complaints and there should be communication- the reasonable care includes doing everything possible to ensure that the message has been spread to all . In to make these steps active then one should live up to the policy and monitor the behavior of the employees upon hearing the unacceptable...