This presentation is about workplace harassment. This presentation shows the impacts of harassment on employees. This presentation provide solutions to eliminate this from our society and it provides the law statement about workplace harassment. Social media also plays an important role in such type of issues and delivers the right code of ethics.
3. What is Harassment?
■ If someone is abusing, insulting, or otherwise harming you is called Harassment.
4. ■ It involves any unwanted physical or verbal behavior that
offends or humiliates you.
PHYSICAL VERBAL
5. Harassment occurs when someone:
threatens or intimidates you because of your race, religion, sex, age,
disability or any other of the grounds of discrimination.
makes unwelcome physical contact with you, such as touching,
patting, or pinching.
6. Work place harassment
Workplace harassment is unwelcome conduct from a boss,
coworker, group of coworkers, vendor, or customer
whose actions, communication, or behavior mocks or puts
down an employee.
Physical assaults, threats, and intimidation are severe
forms of harassment and bullying.
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8. Examples of workplace harassment:
A colleague repeatedly makes fun of your hijab
A manager regularly makes inappropriate comments about your
physical appearance
An employee threatens your safety following a heated discussion
A supervisor rubs your shoulders despite your repeated objections
10. STRESS
ANXIETY
Lack Of Productivity
Lack Of Engagement
Changes Working Style
11. Ratio of harassment in men and women
■ 40-70% of women
■ 10-20% of men
experience workplace harassment at work.
12. Why do women become the victim of harassment
at workplaces?
■ The thought of a woman being needy for her job, having low self-confidence, being less
powerful, and employed at a junior work position is what makes the perpetrator confident of
his actions unable to make ways to the complaint office.
■ The bitter truth is that they get away with it easily because the victims do not raise their voices,
and the unreported acts of harassment actually motivate the harasser to repeat his actions.
■ For the harasser, it is a harmless fun they could enjoy on a daily basis. Yet the victim has to bear
the psychological and social consequences.
13. Initial Steps
■ Tell a Colleague first.
■ Document everything.
■ File a case against harasser.
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15. Harassment Act
[THE PROTECTIONAGAINST HARASSMENTOF WOMEN ATTHE WORKPLACEACT
2010]
An Act to make provisions for the protection against harassment of women at the workplace.
16. ■ Time’s up on silence.
■ Time’s up on waiting.
■ Time’s up on tolerating discrimination, harassment and abuse.