Integrated Framework for Studying the Outcomes of Sexual Harassment (From Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Perspectives, Frontiers, and Response Strategies, P 174-198, 1996, Margaret S Stockdale, ed. -- See NCJ-162499)

• NCJ Number: 162508
• Author(s): K A Hanisch
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 25 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter examines multiple stressors, including sexual harassment, and their multiple consequences for individuals and organizations.

Abstract

Past research on sexual harassment has focused on single outcomes of sexual harassment. The author summarizes past research and arguments for studying multiple outcomes of sexual harassment. Five general outcome categories of organizational stressors and particularly of sexual harassment are identified: health condition, work-role attitudes, work withdrawal, job withdrawal, and litigation. The chapter describes specific research directions for studying multiple stressors and multiple outcomes, as well as an integrated framework for studying organizational stressors and their relation to employee attitudes and behaviors. The first step in understanding the impact of the stressors on employees in organizations is the identification of multiple attitudinal and behavioral outcomes of individuals who are experiencing stress. Subsequent research, after a comprehensive and empirical identification of the consequences of stressors, should evaluate the dollar costs of the multiple outcomes to individuals and organizations. The author advises that sexual harassment should be a concern for organizations because of its impact on organizational profits and overall effectiveness, as well as on individuals' lives. 2 figures and 45 references