Factors Influencing Sexual Harassment In The Malaysian Workplace
This study examined the potential risks factors associated with sexually harassing behaviors within the framework of the four-factor model of sexual harassment. The factors examined are unprofessional work environment, skewed gender ratio in the workplace, knowledge of grievance procedure for sex...
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Asian Academy of Management (AAM)
2007
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/35953/ http://eprints.usm.my/35953/1/AAMJ_12-2-2.pdf |
| Summary: | This study examined the potential risks factors associated with sexually harassing
behaviors within the framework of the four-factor model of sexual harassment. The
factors examined are unprofessional work environment, skewed gender ratio in the
workplace, knowledge of grievance procedure for sexual harassment, sexist attitudes
among co-workers, privacy of workspace, physical attractiveness, dress manner of
victims, job status, and sex roles. The dependent variable is incidence of sexual
harassment which was evaluated using the Sexual Experience Questionnaire developed
by Fitzgerald, Shullman, Bailey, Richards, Swecker, Gold, Ormerod, and Weitzman
(1988). Data were collected from 657 women employees working in Malaysian
organizations. The findings showed that the predictions of the four-factor model are also
largely true in the case of the Malaysian workplace. The study also found that sexual
harassment behaviors are fairly widespread in Malaysia |
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