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REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE SERIES
Sexual Harassment Awareness™
Targeted Skill Level: Basic
Duration: .75 - 1 hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION
What is sexual harassment? How can employees prevent it? What should employees do if it happens? Sexual Harassment Awareness™ answers these questions for office workers. Through numerous thought-provoking vignettes describing physical, verbal, and non-verbal sexual behavior, employees are prompted to decide for themselves whether particular behaviors are appropriate or not. Employees will get to compare their view with those of their colleagues, and they'll get to hear both sides of the story from the characters involved.
This course was developed in partnership with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, a leading legal firm with extensive employment law expertise.
GOALS
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Understand what sexual harassment is.
- Understand how to prevent sexual harassment.
- Understand what to do if harassed.
CASE STUDY
In a fictional company, several characters appear in a series of eleven realistic vignettes. After each of the vignettes, you are asked to decide if a particular behavior described in the scenario would make you feel uncomfortable, and you receive feedback on your response. In four of the vignettes, you see how your colleagues collectively responded through a real-time survey. This enables you to anonymously compare your response to others.
INSTRUCTIONAL PATH CONTENT
- Why take the training?
- Describes how sexual harassment is against the law and against corporate policy and the purpose of the course is to foster a positive working environment
- Includes an overview of other types of harassment and a vignette of racial harassment
- Who could do the harassing and where could it happen?
- Shows that sexual harassment can occur by anyone at the company or others with whom employees come in contact, by men or women, to men or women, and inside or outside the office.
- Includes a vignette of a female manager who invites a male employee to her
home for work and wine
- What is sexual harassment?
- Describes and shows numerous examples of "appropriate and inappropriate Sexual Extortion," and Physical, Verbal and Non-verbal behavior
- Includes vignettes of a sexual relationship between manager and subordinate, a female manager hugging a female employee; some young guys talking about their weekend sexual escapades in the lunchroom, and a male manager with a photo of his bikini-clad girlfriend in his office
- How do I know?
- Describes what unwelcome behavior means, a person's intent vs. the impact, severe or pervasive behavior, and common misperceptions
- Includes vignettes of a client asking a female manager out and ways to respond to unwelcome behavior by colleagues
- If it happens
- Describes what employees should do if they feel they've been harassed and what to expect from their company.
- Includes vignettes about a young female who feels uncomfortable around a
male manager and follow-ups to lunchroom vignette
JUST-IN-TIME CONTENT
- Case Studies: Summaries of nine real court cases
- Frequently asked questions
- Glossary
Presented in the Interactive Directed Learning Model™
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