Harassment, Hostility, & Discrimination in the Workplace Flashcards
What type of prohibited work environment that is defined as that a reasonable person, when considering the totality of the circumstances, would find offensive or intimidating due to the severe or pervasive conduct that alters the conditions of employment or creates an abusive working environment?
A harassing, hostile and discriminatory work environment.
What is a workplace permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule or insult?
An Abusive Work Environment.
What are some of the factors that contribute to a hostile working environment?
Severity of the conduct, frequency, whether its physically threatening, humiliating, or offensive utterance, and if the conduct unreasonably interferes w/the employees work performance .
Offensive or derogatory comments based on the Federal and state law, whether directly or indirectly to another is prohibited by law and is also considered?
Misconduct that is subject to disciplinary action by this agency.
Sexual harassment defined is?
unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
A supervisors responsibility for preventing acts of harassment, hostility, sexual harassment and/or discrimination are?
Monitor work environment daily, counsel employees on prohibited behavior and reporting it, stopping any observed acts and taking steps to intervene regardless if not under their command, taking immediate action to limit contact between two or more employees involved in a complaint.
What is the NPD Policy number on harassment?
250.08
What are employees responsibility on assisting the prevention of the harassment policy?
Refrain from participating in prohibited acts, Report prohibited acts to a supervisor, Encourage an employee who confides in you with the prohibited acts to report it to a supervisor.
In regards to 250.08 the procedure is first to make the violator know their actions are unwelcome/offensive. Where that is not practical an employee may to the next step which is?
Document all evidence of the prohibited actions, they do not have to follow the chain of command to report and report to any supervisor. A supervisor will document the complaint and submit it to the appropriate authority by means of “Internal complaint Review” Policy.
