Timeline for What options exist for helping women employees proactively deal with inappropriate behavior in a primarily-male company?
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| Apr 17, 2021 at 21:47 | vote | accept | FriendlyTumbleweed | ||
| Apr 13, 2021 at 17:06 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @FriendlyTumbleweed And if an employee, female or otherwise, decided to go out on a limb and start spreading information about other employees, the company would probably have grounds to fire them on the spot. Sometimes as a leader you job is to educate employees about proper processes, and not simply give them what they want, no matter how noble your intentions. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 17:03 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @FriendlyTumbleweed It is probably a separate question. Fundamentally if HR are not doing their job properly, the usual approach is to look towards unions, lodging official complaints, speaking with government agencies, or taking individual legal action against the company. You don't encourage employees to take matters into their own hands by encouraging them to form anti-harassment committees (I really can't find a better way to describe this). | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | FriendlyTumbleweed | @GregoryCurrie How would you modify this answer if HR is not behaving correctly? I have heard claims from former employees that they made multiple reports with HR which were never addressed. I fortunately have never had to report anything to HR (at this company or any other in my career), but the general conceit of "tell us problems and we'll deal with it and not really report back" raises a lot of concerns for me. Perhaps there's enough for a separate question there. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 7:17 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @GeoffreyBrent That may be so. But in the absence of any information that HR is not behaving correctly, my advice would be to let HR deal with things. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 6:29 | comment | added | G_B | This is how HR operates at a good, ethical company. But whisper networks exist because not all employers are good and ethical, and HR is not necessarily the employee's friend. (I've worked at one place where the boss was harassing and bullying staff, and his son was the head of HR...) | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 4:54 | comment | added | Stian | There should be, and probably are a set of company policies where this is described in detail. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 1:15 | history | answered | Gregory Currie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |