How to Stop Harassment: The Professional Construction of Legal Compliance in Organizations
- Topics:
- Harassment
- Tags:
- Compliance,
- Gender And Diversity,
- Harassment,
- Harvard University,
- Human Resources,
- Procedure,
- Training And Certification,
- Workforce Management
- Source:
- Harvard University
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Overview: Between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, American employers adopted sexual harassment grievance procedures and anti-harassment training in droves. Neither case law nor legislation supported these practices, and lawyers advised that grievance procedures could backfire, putting employers at risk of liability. Where did these strategies come from and how did they become so common? Both practices were retrofitted weapons from the personnel arsenal. Personnel experts saw it as in their professional interest to claim jurisdiction and hawked grievance procedures and training as amulets against liability. With each legal landmark, more employers adopted the grievance procedures advocated by personnel experts despite negative reviews from lawyers.
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Format: PDF | Size: 580KB | Date: Jan 2006 | Pages: 65
