Sexual Harassment In William Shaw's The Organization And The People In It

In Chapter 11 of William Shaw’s The Organization and the People in It goes over issue of sexual harassment in the workplace and its effects. Sexual harassment is defined as the “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature”, most reports of sexual harassment are from women accusing men however men accusing women is becoming more prevalent in todays society (Shaw, p.444). Sexual harassment is a moral issues because a person becomes a victim by means of verbal comments, gestures, or physical contact of a sexual nature and not being able to refuse them without fear that something worse will happen.

Shaw describes two types of sexual harassment, “quid pro quo” and “hostile work environment” in both cases the victim can be a man or a woman and in both cases sexual harassment is illegal.

The “quid pro quo” harassment culprit is a boss or supervisor that gives certain employees below them benefits if they enter into a sexual relationship, or grant sexual favors to the boss/supervisor (Shaw, p.444). This form of sexual harassment is hard to argue, the suppressor is clearly taking advantage of the subordinate, because the subordinate is at risk for losing their job if they don’t participate.

The second type of

According to the article, the professor was punished because “officials declared that he had violated "the spirit of" a university rule barring romantic relationships between instructors and their students”(Schmidt). At the time of the relationship, which was voluntary, the student was no longer in the class so she was not his student so the reason for which the professor is punished is invalid. Also, this case does not meet the criteria for sexual harassment because it was a voluntary relationship and neither pressed any