Like other employers, healthcare providers can be held liable for sexual harassment in the workplace. However, by implementing an effective sexual harassment policy, healthcare providers can avoid corporate liability for sexual harassment and create a more productive working environment as well.

BACKGROUND Previous research has reported that sexual harassment can lead to reduced mental health. Few studies have focused on sexual harassment conducted by clients or customers, which might occur in person-related occupations such as eldercare work, social work or customer service work. This study examined the cross-sectional association between sexual harassment by clients or customers and ...

This paper introduces ‘harassment’ in a simple model of bribery and corruption. With fixed costs of ‘harassment’, people belonging to the higher income group enjoy more benefit relative to the poorer section of the society. An equilibrium is likely where the poor favor a system without ‘harassment’ but the affluent ones do not.

This article examines (a) variation in rates of sexual harassment across mode (e.g., in-person, online) and type of harassment, (b) the impact of sexual harassment (i.e., distressing vs. non-distressing), and (c) how sexual harassment is similarly and differently experienced across sexual orientation and gender identity groups. Data were collected as part of the Teen Health and Technology onlin...

Among the effects of sexual integration of the workplace has been an increase in the opportunities for, and incidence of, sexual harassment. Sexual harassment, and women’s responses to it, can be understood as reflections of the different evolved sexual psychologies of the sexes. Among the issues discussed are whether the abusiveness of work environments should be viewed from the perspective of...

Sexual harassment has emerged as an unpleasant but important subject for nurses. And, while most instances of sexual harassment take place in business settings or on college campuses, a number have occurred involving nurse anesthetists. Sexual harassment is prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972. However, there is a real difference of ...

Sexual harassment and coercion have mainly been considered from a sex difference perspective. While traditional social science theories have explained harassment as male dominance of females, the evolutionary perspective has suggested that sex differences in the desire for sex are a better explanation. This study attempts to address individual differences associated with harassment from an evol...

Abstract Medical professionals come into direct contact with the public. The relationships are often personal. The aim of the survey is to examine the prevalence of harassment of plastic surgeons by their patients. Survey questionnaires were mailed to all plastic surgeons listed in the 1999 Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery List of Members. A very wide definition of harassment w...

Workplace harassment in its many forms presents an increasingly serious challenge for employers, in terms of legal liability and its potential negative effect on employee behavior. This article reviews workplace harassment with attention to the affirmative defense that the Supreme Court has authorized and the factors the courts have considered in deciding whether the defense has been establishe...