The employee is more likely to conform to the desired behavior if their co-workers along with the supervisor identify the problem and help the infected through the problem. Valuable Work associates are likely to be more specific about behavioral feedback. Receivers of feedback more be less defensive and more open to others views, and more apt to regard the feedback as credible. Another issue that today s supervisors are forced to deal with is sexual harassment in their workplace. Although sexual harassment in the work place has been going on since the beginning of time, sexual harassment awareness on the job has taken a huge leap in public awareness in the 90 s. Enforcement of laws prohibiting sexual harassment has been stepped up in the last few years but in workplaces across America, the issue is far from settled.
Sexual harassment is still a daily problem for many workers.
In legal terms, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidation, hostile or offensive working environment. In real life, sexually harassing behavior ranges from repeated offenses or belittling jokes, to a workplace full of offensive pornography to an out right sexual assault. In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court first ruled that sexual harassment was a form of job discrimination and held it to be illegal. Today, there is greater understanding that the Civil Rights Act prohibits sexual harassment at work. In addition, most states have their own fair employment practices laws that prohibit sexual harassment many of them are more strict than the federal law.