Workplace Harassment and Productivity

Workplace harassment is offensive, belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. Recently, the matters of workplace harassment have gained interest among practitioners and researchers as it is becoming one of the most concerning areas of effective workplace management. In the oriental countries, it attracted lots of attention from researchers and governments since 1980s, because a significant source of work stress is associated with aggressive behaviors at workplace. The third word countries are far behind than of the oriental countries and there are limited efforts to investigate the questions on workplace harassment. Thus these countries don't becoming afforded to wedge the loss of productivity of workers.

What matters the harasser pick?

In a workplace,either may be an office, a factory, a building, a private home, an educational institution or a store (Helen Williams, January 2001), the harasser may pick any of the diversity issues to make one feeling uncomfortable. In the context of Bangladesh, the harasser commonly pick sex, religion, birth place, age, political belief, physical disability of looks of a worker and most frequently the sexual difference and political beliefs. These two particular issues in workplace have become the critical areas of placing concentration in management of workers.

Responsibility of harassment in workplace

Harassment in workplace is usually manufactured by a person might be a boss, superior,manager, director, coworker, customer, patient, delivery person or a person in an union (Helen Williams, January 2001). However, the responsibility of workplace harassment is generally the offence of the human side of an organization in which the management's and administration's effectiveness is an immense part. The female mostly harassed by their clients/ customers and the male workers are by their coworkers.

Workplace harassment and Productivity

For organization workplace harassment is deteriorate and it has serious impact on the workers’ career prospect. Due to the harassment, the workers may loose their reputation. Aside as aforementioned, it compels an organization to experience some problems, such as:

• reduction the workers morale
• negatively affecting the productivity and performance of the workers
• creating defective relationship
• absenteeism
• labor turnover
• lower work pace
• poor concentration to work.

References

Additional sources

• Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition. 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
• Sexual Harassment In The Workplace - Mary L. Boland. Retrieved 2013-07-24.