How Do Your Workers Feel About Harassment? Ask Them

A practical guide to surveying your employees by Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris

January 29, 2018

If your business is serious about eliminating the risk of sexual harassment — and it should be — you need to approach the problem comprehensively. This means recognizing that sexual harassment is part of a continuum of interconnected behaviors that range from gender bias to incivility to legally actionable assault. All these kinds of misconduct should be addressed collectively, because sexual harassment is far more likely in organizations that experience offenses on the “less severe” end of the spectrum than in those that don’t.

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Andrea S. Kramer is a law partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and for more than 30 years she has worked to promote gender equality in the workplace. She is a co-author of It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict At Work and the Bias That Built It (Nicholas Brealey/Hachette 2019) and Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work(Bibliomotion, May 2016).

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Alton B. Harris has been a lawyer for more than 30 years and has worked to promote gender equality in the workplace. He is the co-author, with Andrea S. Kramer, his wife, of It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict At Work and the Bias That Built It (Nicholas Brealey/Hachette 2019) and Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work (Bibliomotion, May 2016).

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How Do Your Workers Feel About Harassment? Ask Them

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