Tips On Handling Harassment In The Workplace

Tips on Handling Harassment in the Workplace

Globally, harassment is a common phenomenon in the workplace. But there are few awareness campaigns about harassment in the workplace. This scourge causes detrimental effects, not only to individual employees, but to a variety of organisations throughout the world. This book raises awareness on incidents of harassment and gives tips on handling this illicit conduct in the workplace. The following types of harassment are discussed in this book:

•Bullying in the workplace

•Verbal and emotional abuse in the workplace

•Isolation and exclusion from workplace activities

•Victimisation and intimidation in the workplace

•Abuse of power in the workplace

•Sexual harassment in the workplace.

This book may empower readers with information that may be helpful when subjected to acts of harassment in the workplace. Equally, this book may equip human resource managers and senior managers with knowledge and strategies for handling, managing and preventing further emergence of incidents of harassment in the workplace.