Sexual Harassment Course Works Samples For Students

Question 1

Sexual harassment is a situation that may unreasonably interfere with individual’s work. It can also create intimidating and a hostile working environment. Sexual harassment may occur in different circumstances but not limited to the following conditions. First, the sexual harasser may not be a person of the opposite sex. Second, the victim harassed may be the victim’s supervisor, a non-employee or a supervisor in another area. Third, sexual harassment may occur without economic injury. Fourth, the victim may not only be the person who is engaged in the act, but also anyone who is offended by the act.
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Discrimination is the unfair treatment of different groups of people usually on the basis of race, sex, religion or disability. Naturally, individuals find themselves in situations of diversity and in different life settings where interaction with other humans is necessary. In this process of interaction, discrimination may creep in especially when minority groups are involved as they are perceived as unequal by the majority groups in the respective society. Education institutions health facilities and work areas are just but a few places where people meet in the process of pursuing their social endeavors. While discrimination is a legal offence, it is ...

Background

Every society has a set of values that individuals, businesses and governments are expected to uphold. These are values that the society holds dear, and each of the members is expected to meet a set threshold. Some of the most important values include honesty, truthfulness and integrity. For businesses, the bar is set a bit high because the appetite for profits may make organizations seek shortcuts and annihilate some of these values. This makes operations that businesses engage in remain under sharp focus. Businesses are expected to uphold the integrity for the benefit of consumers, employees and shareholders. If any of these ...

In this interesting case, we have several facts. On the one hand, Mr. Daggett, representing plaintiff, Ms. Darcy, which is claiming that they have sufficient proofs for accusation Big Car’s Motion and its so-called supervisor, Clarence, for harassment, sex-abuse and that there was a hostile workplace environment for Ms. Darcy, their former employee. On the other hand, representing Big Car Motion company, Mr. Cheatam is trying to persuade that plaintiff do not have sufficient proofs for her claim.

Every Law system has many `black holes`` in which many facts swap in. However, we are learning how to respect our ...

Overview

Sexual harassment in the workplace has increased the need to have and formulate laws that protect employees from exploitation in the workplace. Sexual harassment originates from the need to exercise power in the workplace (Boland, 2005). Sexual harassment in the workplace does not have to involve outright demand for sexual intercourse. It may even involve a simple joke, which is not received well by the other party. Sexual harassment is prevalent in the male dominated workplaces where the number of women employees is fewer. Men will likely be influenced to harass a woman sexually in a workplace. This is the case especially ...

In order to learn and train effectively, the United States Navy Academy has drafted a comprehensive organizational policy that is designed to ensure that all trainees become competent officers. The policy seeks to ensure that students have a safe, secure, friendly, and supportive learning environment that not only provides the necessary academy environment, but also provides an environment that creates an ambience which is student friendly. In order to arrive at this overriding objective, the academy has based its organizational policy on four key pillars. These include security, equality, responsibility, and accountability.

Before the policy was introduced in the academy, there ...

The United States Naval Academy (USNA) was founded in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft. USNA is a four-year coeducational federal service academy that prepares officers for commissioning chiefly into the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.  It is located in Fort Severn in Annapolis, Maryland and thus the academy is also known as “Annapolis” (Baker B.T., Hocevar S.P. & Johnson, W.B., 2003; USNA website).

The history of USNA parallels the history of our country, with the Naval Academy undergoing the same cultural changes as mainstream society (Adamshick, 2010). It is the mission of ...

Sexual harassment constitutes all acts of a sexual nature towards an unwilling victim. Such actions may range from mild behavior such as sexual jokes, comments, and looks to serious cases like grabbing, assault, rape, and child abuse (Hill & Kearl, 2011).

This kind of harassment can occur in educational institutions thus hindering the educational performance and the victim’s right to equal educational opportunities within the school system. This is according to Stein (2000), who has analyzed the occurrence and extent of sexual harassment in schools. Such acts can be perpetrated by people the victims are familiar to such as ...

Introduction

Research show that there is a widening gap between the countries that have already developed and those that are still developing in regards to international sports participation (Fried, 2010). The gap is linked to various factors such as scarcity of physical training, shortage of funds, few sporting equipments and facilities as well as the notion that, developing countries have limited world- level presentation than the developed countries. Research also shows that developing countries encounter several barriers that influence sport participation. Such factors may include; religion, customs, language as well as the remains of colonialism in some sections of the world.

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Discipline may be described as the ways, means, and avenues or channels used by the managers of institutions, businesses or other corporations to identify, investigate and rectify or correct misconduct or infringements among its staff in order to ensure compliance to the laid down company rules and regulations. Discipline is critical in the work place; it makes an organization to be cohesive and better able to achieve its goals (Imundo 1993). Discipline can be thought of as observance of set rules that guides workplace conduct of employees. Because there must be cases of indiscipline in the organization, disciplinary mechanism ...

Per our last conversation, you requested for the formulation of an employment law compliance that will be used for your start-up limousine service business located in Austin, Texas. You also indicated that you will have an initial 25 employees for the first of the year of business. This memo shall explain the various employment laws that have to be implemented by your company. There will be a discussion on the possible penalties that you will have to deal with for noncompliance of these employment laws. It is imperative for the company to abide by these laws to remain in compliance. ...

1.) The best way for an HR manager to prevent an EEOC claims filed against the organization is to encourage the employees to create a work culture and environment that promotes diversity, deters employment discrimination, and sexual harassment. The HR manager should implement serious guidelines to prevent any form of discrimination inside the place of work. It is imperative to develop training programs that promotes job satisfaction and improves the quality of performance. The employer should increase diversity awareness to prevent potential offensive behavior among the employees.

2.) (1) Hannah cannot be forced to submit her claim to arbitration because ...

Introduction

Increased social problems have led to many cases that need to be addressed by psychologists. For instance, in schools there are increased cases of students’ violence that have caused riots and other social problems in schools. Cases of sexual abuse have also drastically increased in modern society. Cases of rape are reported on a daily basis in the media just as reflection of moral corruption in the society. All these social problems are causing dilemmas among psychologists who are supposed to help in solving these problems. This paper will therefore analyze some of these dilemmas among the psychologists.

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Law

1.) The grooming policy implemented by the employer was not illegally discriminatory against Darlene Jespersen who worked as a bartender at Harrah’s. The dress code that has been implemented by Hannah’s did not show that it was discriminatory against the female employees since requiring them to wear make-up was not offensive. What the law provides is that employers are prohibited to discriminate their employees based on color, race, gender, religion, age and natural origin (Twomey, 2010).

However, the case of the male employees, the hair length policy which required them to have a hair length that should not go ...

Cultural competence is a skill required to interact with individuals of various cultures in the fields where people work with persons from different cultural background. To work as a police officer based on the preference of cultural competence is more significant than the next levels in the criminal system. Officers must increase their own cultural competence and include cultural competence as an essential requirement in being indulgent, evaluating, and reporting certain kinds of incidents and crimes. As a profession, law enforcement needs to make sure that agencies promote the importance of officer effectiveness across all backgrounds and equitable principals, policies, and structure ...

The law suit by Jenson against Eveleth mining factory took place in Minnesota State in one of the federal courts. It is a detailed documentation of violent sexual harassment in a chauvinistic male dominated society, more specifically in the work place. It depicts the management’s failure to stop the cruel acts.
In the historic law suit, women who worked as miners testified of being sexually molested, groped, given rape threats and at times beaten. They bitterly testified in court of abusive sexual language and even graffiti. However, despite complaints by the women, none of the rogue men was fired ...