Workplace Harassment In The Workplace Essay

Abstract Workplace harassment, discrimination, and mobbing are found to be common practices in some organizations and it has gotten increasingly worse. Organizations have developed programs to help reduce if not eliminate this growing problem. This paper will specifically discuss the types of workplace discrimination, harassment, and mobbing, and ways to eliminate this growing problem.

Workplace Harassment, discrimination, and mobbing

Workplace Harassment Workplace harassment can be in all forms. Harassment at work or anywhere is a growing and organizations should have policies and procedures in place to help if an employee goes to their immediate supervisor to express that they have been harassed. For example, harassment can be any unwelcomed advances by another employee; you can be harassed by a member in upper management, or even by someone that could be a visitor to your place of employment. According to (Bowling, N. & Beehr,

& Charlesworth, S. 2015, Para. Abstract), “Men are overwhelmingly responsible for sexual harassment against women in the workplace. However, the literature also points to less typical manifestations, including sexual harassment by men of other men and by women of men or other women”. This statement the authors made is an alarming, because it not only tells us that men are committing acts of harassment, but it’s also women committing acts of harassment. A study was conducted in Australia and it revealed, “That twenty-five percent of women and sixteen percent of men reported having experienced sexual harassment in the workplace in the past five year (AHRC, 2012). According to (Tseng, L.M., 2012, Para. Introduction), says, “quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when a harasser makes unwelcomed sexual advances toward the victim in exchange for workplace benefits”. (Fineran, 2002; Buchanan and Fitzgerald, 2008) This type of harassment, quid pro quo is not uncommon; it can happen at any