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Research one or a combination of these job-related topics found within organizations: job discrimination; sexual harassment; bullying or unsafe working conditions.
1.Briefly describe the issue. 2. Analyze the impact on overall morale, relationships within the organization and ultimately overall productivity levels. 3. Research a minimum of one company that was caught up in this type of issue. 4. What best practices might a company implement to avoid negative behavior within their organization? 5. How would you rate the ethical practices of the company that you chose (excellent, fair or poor)? Explain.
Your response should include an introduction, thesis statement, and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above. Research one or a combination of these job-related topics found within organizations: job discrimination; sexual harassment; bullying or unsafe working conditions.
1.Briefly describe the issue. 2. Analyze the impact on overall morale, relationships within the organization and ultimately overall productivity levels. 3. Research a minimum of one company that was caught up in this type of issue. 4. What best practices might a company implement to avoid negative behavior within their organization? 5. How would you rate the ethical practices of the company that you chose (excellent, fair or poor)? Explain.
Your response should include an introduction, thesis statement, and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above. Research one or a combination of these job-related topics found within organizations: job discrimination; sexual harassment; bullying or unsafe working conditions.
1.Briefly describe the issue. 2. Analyze the impact on overall morale, relationships within the organization and ultimately overall productivity levels. 3. Research a minimum of one company that was caught up in this type of issue. 4. What best practices might a company implement to avoid negative behavior within their organization? 5. How would you rate the ethical practices of the company that you chose (excellent, fair or poor)? Explain.
Your response should include an introduction, thesis statement, and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above.

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Topic Selected:

Sexual Harassment

Description of the issue:

Sexual harassment is a very sensitive topic and need to get immediate attention from all. Most of the women are now working with several companies across the globe and are coming out of their shell. But sometimes, women face unwanted behavior of their bosses or colleagues within the organization. Women are sexually harassed either directly or indirectly, thus adding to the fear, frustration level, insecurity and dissatisfaction among the women employees.

Impact of sexual harassment:

Sexual harassment has number of negative impacts on the mental and psychological health of the employees who face such kind of harassment. An employee who is being harassed either once or on regular basis definitely tend to lose all the confidence and weaken on the overall moral, the sense of belongingness decreases to a large extent and the employee feels insecure in the organization.

This further affects the relationship between the employees. The victim tend to be more frustrated, irritated, introvert, moody and fussy with rest of the employees and might avoid maintaining any kind of informal relationship with them. This would weaken the relationships within the organization.

It is evident that if healthy relations will not prevail in the organization and the employees will not feel comfortable with each other the this would result into decreased productivity levels and poor quality output generated by the employees. They will not be able to focus on the work, performance and might lose out on opportunities.

Company which was caught in sexual harassment issue:

The company "The New Republic" is one of the well known magazine working in America and influencing the opinion of the general public. It's former editor, Leon Wieselter was accused of harassing some of his female colleagues at workplace. He harassed his colleagues on regular basis and was a reason of fear, frustration and dissatisfaction among female employees.

Best practices that can be implemented to avoid negative behavior within their organization:

In order to avoid negative behavior among the employees and within the organization, following practices can be followed:

Rating ethical practices of "The New Republic":

The company is involved in number of ethical practices such as:

Hence, it can be said that the ethical practices of the company are "fair", according to my opinion. And some extra and more intense efforts can be put by the company in order to be more ethical in its working to be categorized as excellent ethical practices.

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