Harassment & Diversity: Respecting Differences - Manager Version

Managing a diverse workforce can be a challenge. Use this diversity training course to make sure your managers understand their responsibilities to maintain a harassment-free workplace.

While sexual harassment gets the bulk of the attention, there are other forms of workplace harassment that can be just as detrimental. Ethnicity, age, religious beliefs, nationalities, and physical abilities are all targets for workplace discrimination, but they are also categories that are protected under law. 

Managers need special training to understand their responsibilities to maintain an environment free of hostility, where courtesy and mutual respect are the basis for communication and conflict resolution. Our narrator, Bruce Sarchet, an employment law attorney with Littler Mendelson, details the steps necessary to resolve harassment problems and protect both the company and the employees.

Managers will learn:

• An appreciation for diversity in the workplace.
• Awareness of conditions that may lead to harassment, and what to keep an eye out for.
• Policies and practices that help keep the workplace harassment-free.
• How to respond to a claim of harassment.
• Harassment investigation procedures and proper discipline.
• Why workplace harassment must be taken seriously.

All managers and supervisors need to understand their roles in preventing harassment in today's diverse workplaces. They must know the definition of illegal harassment, and why it cannot be tolerated. Use this comprehensive program to clarify how to recognize and prevent harassment, and what to do if harassment occurs. 

Length: 20 Minutes