Description

While the financial liabilities of sexual harassment can be substantial, they represent only a part of the total cost.

To the extent sexual harassment defines how your organization values its employees, your organization increasingly becomes a place to avoid. To the extent your organization accepts of sexual harassment as an incidental working condition, you tell employees, applicants, and third parties: "we don't value you." And to the extent your organization fails to take immediate action to correct problems, you demonstrate that workers should look elsewhere for employment.

As a result, the marketplace is increasingly asking and evaluating the following critical questions:

• Does the organization avoid the growing legal pitfalls to reduce sexual harassment clsims?
• Does the organization properly conduct sexual harassment and workplace investigations?
• Does the organization properly weight and balance privacy issues and concerns?
• Are all employees encouraged to report incidents of sexual harassment and are all supervisors and managers required to take action and report incidents?

These critical issues and other important elements of an effective sexual harassment program will be discussed.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Discuss the impact of sexual harassment within your organization
• Define the definition and types of sexual harassment
• Describe how sexual harassment affects the achieve of organizational goals
• Discuss the financial impact of sexual harassment on your organization's bottom line
• Discuss the human resources impact on the planning and managing of your work force
• Play a leadership role in reducing and managing sexual harassment

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Professionals
• Internal and External Auditors
• Compliance Officers
• Risk Managers
• C-suite Executives
• Middle and on-line Managers