Scenario 1: Bad Behavior? Sergeant Officer Stevens reported that after

Scenario 1: Bad Behavior?

Scenario 1: Bad Behavior? Sergeant Officer Stevens reported that after roll call he heard two male officers telling sexually explicit jokes in the hallway. As the sergeant exited the roll call room, he noticed one of the female dispatchers standing within a few feet of the two officers. The sergeant chose to ignore the immediate situation and just made a report.

First, sexually explicit jokes at work are unprofessional and uncalled for. It’s hurtful and disrespectful. A female dispatcher was within ear shot of the offensive jokes. If the jokes were towards the female dispatcher or about her, it can be considered sexual harassment.

Women police officers have a higher turnover rate than males and one cause is due to sexual harassment (More & Miller, 2015).

Sergeants are actually in a strategic situation when it’s dealing with this in the work environment, and are expected to be proactive versus reactive to situation of this Sexual harassment is prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , and can take one of two forms: quid pro quo sexual harassment, and hostile work environment sexual harassment (More favors in order to obtain, maintain, or improve employment status” (More & Miller, 2015, p. 401).

Hostile work environment sexual harassment is when “individual employees are subjected to suggestive comments, photographs, jokes, obscene gestures, or unwanted physical contact (More & Miller, 2015, p. 401).

Hostile work environment sexual harassment has four elements: “the conduct is unwelcome; the conduct is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive work environment; the conduct is perceived by
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