Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Prevention with Effective Harassment Training Programs

Sexual harassment in the workplace is a serious matter. It involves unwelcome conduct that's sexual in nature or based on a person's gender or sex, and it can happen between people of different sexes or between people of the same sex. Organizations and managers have a critical role to play in preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace. For inappropriate conduct to create a sexually harassing environment, it must be severe or pervasive.

One of the most critical skills in resolving diversity challenges such as sexual harassment in the workplace is the ability to effectively solve problems. Good supervisory leadership can go a long way toward preventing sexual harassment in the workplace, discrimination, and retaliation. LRN, the leader in code conduct ethics and workplace diversity training, believes companies can deter all forms of discrimination in workplace by making corporate ethics and responsibility part of the fabric of their organizational cultures.

The best workplace diversity training programs teach employees and management what constitutes unethical conduct, including a no-tolerance policy for sexual harassment in the workplace. LRN's harassment training programs help employees recognize and report all forms of misconduct, including all forms of workplace harassment, legal research and discrimination, affirm that they follow the code of conduct and take responsibility for safeguarding their company's culture.

LRN's experience has shown that companies can deter sexual harassment in the workplace when they create effective sexual harassment training programs by incorporating five key elements:

• Senior management takes responsibility for driving ethics and harassment training efforts.
• Educate on values – as well as laws and rules – to inspire principled behavior.
• Make diversity education interesting, stimulating and engaging.
• Make workplace harassment training relevant to real, on-the-job scenarios.
• Reinforce sexual harassment training by relating course content to actual experiences and scenarios involving sexual harassment in the workplace.

Since 1993, LRN has helped nearly 300 companies create and implement effective ethics and compliance training programs that teach employees how to recognize and report discrimination in the workplace. LRN's team of 350 dedicated professionals will work with you to develop communications and leverage campaign management tools to promote and reinforce your ethics training program LRN's courseware and tools are powerful ways to engage your employees in ethical leadership and corporate values. Visit LRN.com to find out how you can create winning diversity training programs to inspire principled performance.