RT Article
T1 Sexual Harassment: A Matter of Individual Ethics, Legal Definitions, or Organizational Policy?
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 16
IS 2
SP 129
OP 146
A1 Keyton, Joann
A1 Rhodes, Steven C.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1997
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785608320
AB Although interest in business ethics has rapidly increased, little attention has been drawn to the relationship between ethics and sexual harassment. While most companies have addressed the problem of sexual harassment at the organizational level with corporate codes of ethics or sexual harassment policies, no research has examined the ethical ideology of individual employees. This study investigates the relationship between the ethical ideology of individual employees and their ability to identify social-sexual behaviors in superior-subordinate interactions. The results indicate that ethical ideology does have an effect on employees' ability to identify verbal sexually harassing behaviors. This effect, however, is not demonstrated on nonverbal sexually harassing behaviors.
K1 Corporate Code
K1 Organizational Level
K1 Sexual Harassment
K1 Business Ethic
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1023/A:1017905100869