What training strategies should an employer use to avoid harassment and discrimination inthe workplace?
Reaching the goal of appropriate workplace behavior is a concern for many companies andemployees alike. Creating a culture that validates professional conduct can be instrumental in meetingbusiness-wide objectives, financial goals, litigation avoidance and ultimately employee satisfaction. Prior to the development of harassment training strategy, it is important to define and identify the harassmentissues, as they exist in your company. The generic definition of harassment and its impact, potential discrimination, is verbal or physical conduct thatdenigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of that person’ s (or that person’ srelatives’ , friends’ , or associates’) sex, race, skin color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability, andthat: • has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment • has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with the individual’ s work performance • otherwise adversely
