How Does Sexual Harassment Influence the Female Employee’s Negative Response in a Deluxe Hotel?

Abstract

Today, organizations face risky legal and financial consequences stemming from a single sexual harassment event. The purpose of this study was to verify that the sexual harassment, as perceived by female employees, significantly affects their levels of psychological distress and workplace deviant behavior to investigate the moderating role of organizational silence and psychological detachment in the causal relationship. First, this study found that perceived sexual harassment has a negative impact on the female employees’ psychological distress and workplace deviant behavior. This study’s results also demonstrated that psychological distress has a positive impact on workplace deviant behavior. Additionally, the influence of perceived sexual harassment on psychological distress increased when the employees’ psychological detachment was weak. Finally, limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

Platform riders' occupational stigma consciousness and workplace deviant behavior: the mediating role of self-depletion

“…Previous studies have shown that occupational stigma consciousness can cause more negative work-related outcomes (Van Laar et al, 2019;Clough et al, 2020). Studies on workplace deviant behavior have confirmed that organizational factors could be antecedents or predictors of workplace deviant behavior (Jung and Yoon, 2020). Scholars have called for more investigation of deviant behavior to identify the process of behavior decision-making from the perspective of personal resources (Park et al, 2019).…”

“…Therefore, understanding these behaviors and related antecedents has become an important research field (Yildiz et al, 2015). A literature review shows that studies have focused on demographic characteristics (O'Neill et al, 2011;Pletzer et al, 2019), organizational conditions (Dora and Azim, 2019;Kalemci et al, 2019) and workrelated factors (Jung and Yoon, 2020) as antecedents or predictors of workplace deviant behavior. However, few studies have explored uncontrollable cognitive sources within the organization, such as occupational stigma consciousness (O'Neill et al, 2011;Park et al, 2019).…”

“…Considering the negative impact on individuals and organizations (Jung and Yoon, 2020), such as a serious economic threat to organizations, researchers focus on the antecedents of workplace deviant behavior (Eliyana and Sridadi, 2020). Many studies explain employee behaviors in terms of social exchange theory and organizational support theory (Yildiz et al, 2015;Di Stefano et al, 2019).…”

“…, 2019), organizational conditions (Dora and Azim, 2019; Kalemci et al. , 2019) and work-related factors (Jung and Yoon, 2020) as antecedents or predictors of workplace deviant behavior. However, few studies have explored uncontrollable cognitive sources within the organization, such as occupational stigma consciousness (O'Neill et al.…”

Health and Well-Being Consequences for Gender Violence Survivors from Isolating Gender Violence

“…Furthermore, an association between sexual harassment in the workplace and suicide and suicide attempts has been found [24]. Moreover, other research carried out in different workplace settings has shown that women who suffer sexual harassment develop psychological distress, which refers to a psychological condition that is characterized by negative thoughts and feelings related to anxiety, fear or depression [25] and need later psychotherapeutic or pharmacologic treatment [23]. In addition, consequences for job-related aspects such as stress, burnout [20] and job withdrawal [22] are associated with sexual harassment.…”