Sexual harassment
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Corporate America is still inundated with sexual-harassment cases despite efforts by management to prevent them. Jokes with sexual overtones, indecent comments and insinuations, leering, touching of private body parts, requests for sexual favors and gender-related slurs continue to pervade the workforce. HR management must exert effort in solving this problem because sexual harassment usually leads to costly lawsuits, lowered productivity, higher turnover, absenteeism and low morale. To effectively thwart harassment, HR management must issue a clear, strong sexual-harassment policy that is fully supported by senior management and train employees on issues related to sexual harassment. When a complainant reports being sexually harassed, immediate investigation should be conducted by interviewing the parties involved as well as witnesses. Communication should also be kept open at all times to encourage victims to report their cases as soon as possible.
Publication Name: Personnel Journal
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5745
Year: 1995
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Today's priorities may not be tomorrow's: eyeing future HR concerns
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The concerns and priorities of the field of personnel management are going to change dramatically in the next decade to the year 2005. This is revealed by the latest annual HR issues survey conducted by the Human Resource Institute participated in by 576 senior HR executives at Fortune 200 companies. The survey asked the respondents to cite their primary concerns in 1995 and to predict their main priorities ten years later. Their current top five concerns are change management, employee skills, health-care costs, management issues, and work ethics/values. In contrast, the top five issues they predict to be the most pressing in the year 2005 are employee skills, change management, information technology, workforce aging and management issues.
Publication Name: Personnel Journal
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5745
Year: 1996
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