Sexual Harassment of Human Resource Professionals

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the frequency that male and female human resource (HR) professionals receive unwanted sexual behavior and the likelihood of perceiving such behavior as sexual harassment. Participants in this study included members of the human resource societies in metropolitan statistical areas of 525,000, 45,000, and 41,000. Each participant completed Fitzgerald's, et al. Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ). The SEQ includes three subscales to measure unwanted sexual behavior in the form of: gender harassment (GH), unwanted sexual attention (USA), and sexual coercion (SC). Frequency tables, t-Tests, Chi-Square, ANOVA, and Pearson's r were used to investigate eleven research questions. Human resource professionals were found to be sexually harassed at rates greater in the case of GH and USA and equal to in the case of SC as compared to other occupational or organizational settings in which the SEQ was used to gather data. Female HR professionals self-reported the folloSchool of Teaching and Curriculum Leadershi

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