A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Sexual Harassment Training Ppt

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This slide gives an introduction to sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can be defined as unwanted or unwelcome sexual advances or verbal, non-verbal or physical acts of a sexual nature that have the effect of hindering a person's ability to execute their job duties. 

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This slide lists types of unwelcomed acts and behavior that are considered as sexual harassment. These include: Physical contact and/or advances, demand or request for sexual favors, making sexual remarks/comments. 

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This slide lists types of sexual harassment. These include: Verbal, physical, visual, and non-verbal misconduct. 

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This slide shows examples of verbal harassment as a type of sexual harassment. These may include: Sexist remarks or insulting comments based on gender, sexual or sexist jokes or teasing, innuendos and taunts.

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This slide discusses examples of physical harassment as a type of sexual harassment. These may include: Unwelcome hugging, physical contact, or kissing, forcible physical touch or molestation, standing very close to or brushing up against someone, leaning over, or invading a person's personal space.

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This slide talks about examples of visual harassment as a type of sexual harassment. These may include showing explicit visual content such as posters, drawings, calendars, cartoons, pinups, photos.

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This slide discusses non-verbal harassment as a type of sexual harassment. The examples include staring, sizing up a person’s body (looking from top to bottom), offensive sexual gestures. 

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This slide gives an overview of the classification of sexual harassment at the workplace. There are two types of sexual harassment in the workplace: Quid pro quo and hostile work environment. 

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This slide gives information about Quid Pro Quo as sexual harassment at the workplace. This type of sexual harassment implies seeking sexual favors or making sexual advances in exchange for benefits at work.

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This slide gives information about hostile work environment as sexual harassment at the workplace. Uninvited and undesirable conduct or behavior, whether it takes the form of physical, verbal, non-verbal, or visual expressions, creates a hostile work environment and makes it difficult for employees to be at the workplace.

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This slide discusses the importance of addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment is a discriminatory practice and should not be condoned since it compromises employees' integrity, dignity, and well-being. Therefore, it becomes essential to address any issues related to sexual harassment.

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This slide highlights the importance of addressing sexual harassment at the workplace. It helps in raising awareness, encouraging reporting, empowering bystanders, creating a strong workplace culture, and assists in complying with the law.

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This slide discusses how addressing sexual harassment at the workplace helps in raising awareness. A training course on understanding sexual harassment as the big menace it is, clear all ambiguities and educate the workforce on appropriate and inappropriate behaviors at the workplace.

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This slide talks about the importance of addressing sexual harassment in an organization and how it encourages reporting. Sexual harassment training can encourage everyone to report any sexual misconduct, as it informs them about different ways to file a complaint.

Instructor’s Notes: A zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment can be established with adequate training, which will encourage reporting without the fear of retaliation or other consequences.

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This slide discusses how addressing sexual harassment at the workplace encourages bystanders. Sexual harassment incidents may include bystanders who don’t always intervene or stop unwanted behaviors. Bystander intervention is a crucial part of sexual harassment training. It informs everyone on the ways to prevent or stop sexual misconduct at the workplace. 

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This slide discusses the importance of addressing sexual harassment in an organization and how it aids in creating a strong workplace culture. 

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This slide talks about the importance of addressing sexual harassment at the workplace as it helps in complying with the law.

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This slide discusses how addressing sexual harassment can help the potential victims. Sexual Harassment training at the workplace can help potential victims in many ways such as spreading awareness about the types of sexual harassment, assuring their well-being in the company. 

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This slide discusses how addressing sexual harassment can help in stopping potential perpetrator(s). The management sends out a strong message on zero-tolerance against sexual harassment ensuring that everyone is aware that indecent behavior will have dire consequences like tainted reputation, loss of career opportunities, unemployment.

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This slide gives the definition of the workplace in the context of sexual harassment. The workplace refers to any place where working relationships exist. In addition to your office, it also includes workplace of an external client, corridors, canteens. 

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This slide discusses the workplace in the unorganized sector. In the organized sector, a workplace can be defined as an enterprise owned by individuals or self-employed workers or the total number of workforce employed by the business is less than 10.

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This slide lists examples of situations of sexual harassment such as a new female employee being asked to share a room with her male supervisor; the official reason given is that project funds are low. 

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This slide lists examples of what is not sexual harassment. In a situation where a female employee is required to stay after hours to complete an overdue task is not sexual harassment, as are several other scenarios where the behavior may be wrong in other aspects, but is definitely not sexual harassment. 

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This slide lists stakeholders covered in the Sexual Harassment Act. These include: employer, employee, domestic worker, aggrieved woman, and respondent. 

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This slide gives the definition of the employer as an important stakeholder in sexual harassment cases. Employers can be defined as workers who work on their own account or with one or a few partners or hold a self-employed job.

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This slide gives the definition of an employee as an important stakeholder in case of sexual harassment. An employee is defined as a person who is employed at a workplace for any work on a regular, temporary, ad hoc, or daily wage basis; directly or indirectly through a third party, including a contractor; with or without the knowledge of the primary employer.

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This slide gives the definition of a domestic worker as an important stakeholder in case of sexual harassment. The term domestic worker refers to any person who is engaged in domestic work (work done in or for a household or households) within an employment relationship.

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This slide gives the definition of an aggrieved woman as an important stakeholder in case of sexual harassment. An aggrieved woman includes a woman of any age, regardless of her employment status, who claims to have been subjected to any act or behavior of sexual harassment by a respondent in relation to a workplace.

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This slide gives the definition of the respondent as an important stakeholder in case of sexual harassment. Respondent refers to the individual against whom the aggrieved woman has filed a complaint with the Internal or Local Committee. 

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This slide highlights some key statistics regarding sexual harassment in the workplace.

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This slide depicts the number of sexual harassment charges that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received between the years 2014 and 2021.

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This slide illustrates the economic cost of sexual harassment at the workplace. Sexual harassment at work has financial implications that victims, their employers, the government, and the society shares.

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This slide talks about productivity costs that sexual harassment at the workplace leads to. Employee productivity is reduced in toxic workplaces. According to a Deloitte research, sexual harassment costs about $2.62 billion in lost productivity.

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This slide discusses the compensation for victims of sexual harassment investigations at the workplace. In some circumstances, compensation may be given to the victim of workplace sexual harassment. The employer typically bears these costs; however, the perpetrator may be liable in some cases.

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This slide discusses government justice system costs in cases of sexual harassment at the workplace. Some workplace sexual harassment cases go through the legal system, which can incur costs for legal counsel, court fees, police expenses, and incarceration expenses for serious offenses like sexual assault.

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This slide talks about the individual legal fees in sexual harassment cases, if they arise, at the workplace. Employers are responsible for meeting legal costs and other relevant expenses when an employee accuses them of sexual harassment.

Instructors’ Notes: In 2019, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received over 7,500 claims of sexual harassment, resulting in a payout of $68 million in direct settlements.

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This slide talks about the impact of sexual harassment on health and health system costs. Many health system costs can be attributed to workplace sexual harassment such as cost of GPs, medication.

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This slide discusses the cost of sexual harassment investigations at the workplace. The turnover cost after an employee leaves a company can amount to as much as 33% of their last drawn annual salary. This is due to the cost of the hiring process, which entails creating a job description, finding candidates, screening applications & resumes, training costs. 

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This slide discusses the business impact of sexual harassment on brand value of an organization. Research shows that when customers observe or learn of "incivility" directed at an employee at work, they may form unfavorable opinions and be less likely to purchase from such a company.

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This slide talks about the impact of sexual harassment on the victim. It can negatively impact the psychological well-being, and health of the victim, with professional losses. 

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This slide lists the psychological effects of sexual harassment on the victims.

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This slide talks about the negative impact of sexual harassment on victims’ health.

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This slide discusses how sexual harassment can hit the victim’s professional growth.

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This slide gives information about a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit. In 2016, a sexual harassment lawsuit was brought against former Fox News head Roger Ailes by former Fox journalist Gretchen Carlson. The lawsuit against Ailes claimed that he demoted her from the “Fox & Friends” segment after she turned down his sexual advances.

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This slide tells us about Google’s Sexual Harassment Settlement. In 2018, the New York Times revealed that Google had intentionally covered up a sexual harassment lawsuit concerning one of its main employees and had allowed the employee to quit with a $90 million termination payout. 

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These slides present a scenario to get absolute clarity on what constitutes sexual harassment. 

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These slides present another scenario for an activity on sexual harassment.

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These slides contain energizer activities to engage the audience of the training session.