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What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops: or A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment (A Cato Institute Book)
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ASIN: 0814782329
Release Date: 1999-10-01 |
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Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue?
High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general hostility couched in sexual terms.
What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of transition toward a more balanced population of women in the workplace, with accompanying disruptions that can be minimized by understanding. Joan Kennedy Taylor presents what we know about the workplace and interviews managers, labor experts, and workers in such male-dominated fields as construction, engineering, business, and medicine to shed light on the male group culture that exists without women. She illustrates expressive behaviors that may be objectionable but are not sexual harassment and proposes specific strategies by which these objectionable behaviors can be countered, including a new feminist approach in company training programs. Taylor examines traditional and nontraditional workplaces, and female on male as well as male on male harassment, in order to apply these strategies to the entire picture.
Lively and anecdotal, Taylor's balanced, non-adversarial study fills an important gap by providing strategies for businesses and employees, as well as for those who find themselves the target of sexual harassment.
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Finally -- Common Sense on Harassment.......1999-12-05
This is a fantastic, much-needed book. Its common sense approach will help men, women and employers handle issues around harassment in a practical, meaningful way. The perfect antidote for the "politically correct" police. Especially important for professors and students in academia. Easy to read style makes it accessible for any reader.
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Very timely,very helpful-but too late for Clinton & Currie........1998-12-17
DeMars is practical, practical, practical. She tackles the most confudling dilemmas at work and provides an ethical compass to resolve them. You can always quit,but why not resolve the dilemmas and keep your job,too? I didn't always agree with her, but DeMars got me talking to my coworkers and my boss about what was the best solution-which was exactly DeMars' purpose for writing the book in the first place, I suspect. Yes, sometimes good employees do bad things--so here's what you do when it happens.
Very practical guide to resolving ethical dilemmas at work........1998-09-21
Bettie Currie, Fawn Hall, and Rosemary Woods needed this book. So did I. Lots of us face ethical choices that keep us up at night, or cause us to wince inside. DeMars uses lots of real-life examples to help us resolve the common dilemmas we find every day at work -- dilemmas about confidentiality, loyalty, office romance, harassment, information manipulation -- it's all here.
She also coaches us about how to get the ethics discussion going -- without losing our jobs.
My favorite chapters were on lying (only very little lies told for social convention and very large lies told to save lives are OK) and "the trouble with the boss" (here's how to talk to him about his profanity, disrespect, lies, thievery, harassment, whatever). DeMars says high ethics boosts productivity and retention of customers and employees, then shows us how to have those long-overdue conversations about how we treat each other. A great book, period. I am so clear now about where I need to draw "that line" between what I will and will not do, and I am so confident about how to do it.
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A book that every employee should have in hand--a practical, no-nonsense guide to what sexual harassment is and what each manager, supervisor and employee should do about it. Companies will learn about limiting liability, training guidelines, and future trends. Managers and supervisors will learn a six-step program on how to stop harassment, the 10 factors for assessing an incident, and how to conduct an investigation. Employees will learn 25 things to do if sexual harassment happens to them.
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A great tool!.......2000-07-08
A great tool and resource for everyone in the workplace. Supervisors and workers can all benefit from the practical approach presented by Ms. Webb. Be prepared, every Human Resource Office and supervisor should have a copy. Don't think it won't happen to you, I'm living proof it can. I'm assertive and confident - I never dreamed it could happen to me. Educate yourself as a worker add Step Forward: Sexual Harassent in the Workplace to your personal library. Be well Linda
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Crisp: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Guide to Prevention (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)
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It is imperative that employers correctly identify sexual harassment, know what preventative and remedial actions to take, and what liability is involved if no action is taken. This book details the legal implications of workplace sexual harassment, along with providing the knowledge and skills managers need to cope with this complex subject.
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Very informative and easy to read........2002-11-07
This book offers a window into what is happening in our schools and offers ways to fix it. If you have read books like Real Boys, Raising Cain, Queen Bees and Wanna Bes, then I think this book will dovetail nicely. This book is a call to participate in your community and childrens' schools and it offers ways to do so and positively impact the environment of your childrens' schools. I do know Dr. Shoop personally, but I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this book and how it offered further insight into adolescent behavior and what is going on in our schools.
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Billions of dollars have been spent on the wrong solution to the complex, sensitive and emotionally charged issue of discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Companies originally invested in diversity training in order to meet Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity requirements, to reduce litigation costs, and to buy social peace. The result was often more social conflict--divisiveness, hostility, backlash, and an increase in litigation. This book offers a new, simple and effective solution to organizations that include the need to: establish, publish and enforce a zero-tolerance policy against discrimination and harassment; develop standards which define unacceptable professional workplace behaviors; and provide the relationship skills training necessary for all employees to meet the company's behavioral standards. Diversity training failed because of its focus on awareness, understanding and appreciating differences rather than teaching basic skills to help employees relate more effectively with each other regardless of their differences. Companies have the right to require professional behavior from their employees. They do not have the right to ask their employees to change ther personal values and belief systems. This book provides a blueprint for a skills-based solution to the elimination of discrimination and harassment. It emphasizes the development of professional relationship skills to help employees work more effectively with their bosses, their peers, their team members, their customers, and all those individuals different from themselves. For all business executives, leaders, managers, supervisors, human resource specialists, trainers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and employees.
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Ditto (Almost).......2002-08-16
The first half of the book was pretty good and pretty accurate. It describes what I have always felt - that most businesses do a very poor job at attempting to tack diversity. While it does have some good tips, the last half of the book is more of a solicitation for their "tool."
This book seems to be just a ploy to sell author's wares.......1998-07-01
I was really disappointed in this book -- especially considering the price and the lack of credible reseach within the book. Instead of exploring the topic fully and providing a solid grounding for the recommendations, chapters are wasted discussing specific tm tools of the authors/consultants. The content of this book has been done before -- usually in shorter magazine articles and often more thoroughly.
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In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment--a concept that first emerged in 1975--has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University.......2005-02-01
Saguy's book accomplishes much and does so in an accessible and sophisticated way. I have used it to teach my undergraduates in an introductory gender course and they found it compelling and powerful. For them it opens up a black box of taken for granted assumptions about the relationship between gender and policy. It shows how gender shapes cultural and institutional arrangements, which in turn influences policy form and implementation, which in turn affects policy impacts and social change. The study does so with thoughtful analyses of indepth interviews of lawyers and human resource personnel, media analyses, and key informant interviews. My undergraduates thoroughly enjoyed the book and frequently referred to it in later discussions and essays. It had clearly impressed them. I will certainly use it in future courses.
I could also easily see using this book to teach about public policy. It is an excellent exemplar for social policy analysis. This is a beautifully written, excellent comparative analysis, and powerfully insightful study of how policies evolve in different contexts, yielding profoundly different implementation and impacts for individuals and society. In this way it can be useful not only for those interested in the specifics of the topic, but also for those interested in the broader questions of policy making, implementation and consequences.
Finally, I was recently at the University of Florida when Saguy's book came up in a conversation about women's studies. What is Sexual Harassment was to one of the senior scholars "a wonderful 'next generation' piece of scholarship" for future women's studies scholars to emulate.
Excellent.......2003-09-09
In this pathbreaking comparative study, Saguy sheds light on a crucial aspect of the lives of many working women by analyzing the various frames through which sexual harassment is understood in two national contexts. While norms against sexual harassment are growing deeper roots in the American workplace, accusations of sexual improprieties remain often the object of ridicule in France. Saguy's explanation of this and other differences goes beyond traditional culturalist models. The beauty of her analysis is to capture some of the ways in which sexuality is used to gain power in the workplace, and the role played by cultural frameworks in mediating these modalities."--Michele Lamont, co-author of Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States
Interdisciplinary legal scholarship at its best.......2003-09-08
For more than 100 years, starting with Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous essay "The Path of the Law," American legal scholars have bemoaned the lack of a serious sociological jurisprudence, that would treat law as a social phenomenon, rather than as a conceptual game or an opportunity to indulge in covert advocacy disguised as scholarship.
Holmes was merely the first in a long line of legal thinkers to ignore his own advice (in his 30-year judicial career, he did basically nothing to advance any serious interdisciplinary study of law).
In her new book, Abigail Saguy demonstrates how a rigorous sociological investigation of a now-common legal concept from a comparative perspective can yield all sorts of insights into the nature of the politics of law.
Saguy compares the concepts of sexual harrassment as they have been developed by the American and French legal systems. Part of the book's value is how it reminds us that what now seems like a central concept of American, and to a much lesser extent, French, law, was something that literally did not even exist 30 years ago. She traces the genesis of the concept in the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and describes how the concept has taken significantly different forms in France and America.
Her interviews with numerous prominent legal and political actors in both countries are fascinating, as is her analysis of the factors that have led to sexual harrassment being framed as a form of sex discrimination in America, and a crime of violence (albeit a widely ignored one) in France.
While Saguy's methods are markedly empirical, she does not overwhelm the reader with statistics. Rather, she weaves an engrossing narrative, that will interest lawyers, legal scholars, especially those with interests in comparative law, employment law, and gender politics, sociologists, political activists, and anyone else who is concerned with the use and abuse of sexual power in the workplace. (Among the many taken-for-granted issues Saguy helps clarify is the apparent arbitrariness ivolved in limiting the concept of sexual harrassment to workplace interactions).
This is a terrific book. If the academy produced more work like this, we wouldn't be suffering our current embarrassment of being able to read "The Path of the Law" 103 years after its publication with such a distinct sense of plus ca change . . .
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Information for Victims and the Workplace.......2006-01-05
This book tells how to confront the harasser. If the harassment continues, the legal steps are covered. For an employer, it provides information on policies, complaint procedures, training sessions and monitoring to prevent harassment.
NOLO Press is noted for making legal information accessible to ordinary people. This topic is something that every supervisor and employer needs to be briefed on.
Good Resource.......2003-01-28
I found the book to be pretty straightforward and easy to read. It gives all the pertinent information on the subject from the law to how to stop sexual harassment to your legal remedies. One of the best features is that provides an array of case studies that clear up a lot of the gray areas. I used the book to help me develop a training on the subject, I recommend it to anyone who needs more info on the subject.
An Excellent Resource.......2001-07-08
As an employment attorney and human resource consultant who trains organizations on harassment policy, I use this book as a great reference material. I often suggest it to supervisors who want to know more about how to deal with this complex and difficult problem....
The Skinny on Sexual Harassment for Employers.......2000-11-28
Every business with employees that does not have a sexual harassment policy in place needs to buy this book now.
Actions the authors say employers need to implement regarding sexual harassment include: Do whatever it takes to understand the law, the issues, and keep current; put in place a zero tolerance sexual harassment prevention policy that prohibits specific behaviors of verbal harassment, non-verbal tactics, and physical harassment; take action to stop sexual harassment that does occur and prevent reoccurrence and reprisals.
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Can you say anything about sex at the office anymore? Yes, maybe, but read this first.
Sexual harassment is a malign specter hovering over workplaces everywhere. One touch of its foul breath can devastate businesses--causing them to lose millions of dollars, not to mention waste bundles of time and energy. Needless to say, organizations are running scared.
This book provides managers with vital information to protect themselves and their companies from lawsuits, bad publicity, decreased employee morale, and other associated miseries. Topics covered include: * laws and court decisions (including the most recent Supreme Court rulings) what behavior is acceptable--and what isn't * preventive policies and staff training * investigating complaints, and more.
With one of every three cases filed with the EEOC involving a sexual harassment claim, managers need help. This complete "answer book"--with real-life scenarios, self-help quizzes, checklists, and thoughtful analysis--gives them just the guidance they need.
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Easy-to-read, thorough, well-written, great resource!.......1999-04-24
Managers and supervisors may find it hard to show leadership about sexual harassment when they're not sure what it is and don't feel much confidence about the subject. This book gives managers information and confidence. The chapter that helps readers recognize when their own behavior could expose their employers to liability, even when that is not the supervisor's intention, is especially good. There are many books about sexual harassment, but not many that really talk to managers and can serve as an ongoing support. This is one of the few. Highly recommended.
Sarah Magee, Editor "EEO Review" and "Inside Employee Rights Litigation"
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