Sexual Harassment: Managing the Critical Business, Financial, and Human Resources Issues

While the financial liabilities of sexual harassment can be substantial, they represent only a part of the total cost. To the extent that sexual harassment defines how your organization values its employees, your organization increasingly becomes a place to avoid. To the extent your organization accepts sexual harassment as an incidental working condition, you tell employees, applicants, and third parties: “We don’t value you.”  And to the extent your organization fails to take immediate action to correct problems, you demonstrate that workers should look elsewhere for employment. 

As a result, the marketplace is increasingly asking and evaluating the following critical questions:

• Does the organization avoid the growing legal pitfalls to reduce sexual harassment claims?
• Does the organization properly conduct sexual harassment and workplace investigations?
• Does the organization properly weigh and balance privacy issues and concerns?
• Are all employees encouraged to report incidents of sexual harassment, and are all supervisors and managers required to take action and report incidents?
• These critical issues and other important elements of an effective sexual harassment program will be discussed.

Key Points:-

Sexual harassment claims increasingly expose your organization to significant business, financial, and human resources-related costs and liabilities. Potential claims now often exceed six-figure numbers. More importantly, sexual harassment increases recruitment and hiring costs, increases absenteeism and turnover costs, lowers employee morale, reduces job performance, and results in lost productivity. As a result, if your company has a 6% profit margin, it will have to generate $1,667,000 in new sales to cover the costs of each sexual harassment claim or award of $100,000.

Why You Should Attend:-

• Discuss the impact of sexual harassment within your organization
• Define the definition and types of sexual harassment
• Describe how sexual harassment affects the achievement of organizational goals
• Discuss the financial impact of sexual harassment on your organization’s bottom line
• Discuss the human resources impact on the planning and managing of your work force
• Play a leadership role in reducing and managing sexual harassment.

Who will Benefit:-

• HR Professionals
• Internal and external auditors
• Compliance officers
• Risk managers
• C-suite executives
• Middle and on-line managers.