From the course: Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

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Culture vs. compliance

Culture vs. compliance

From the course: Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

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Culture vs. compliance

- Culture is the ultimate harassment prevention. In other words, having a positive corporate culture creates an environment where harassment won't be allowed to flourish, and that's harassment prevention. A positive culture creates peer pressure to act respectfully. When someone goes against the culture, the community will shut it down collectively. So, if Jenna sends out an email with an inappropriate joke, for example, instead of getting offended and keeping it to themselves, her coworkers would speak to her directly. Not only that, if it's the status quo to act positively, Jenna would take the response seriously and think twice before sending another email like that. In contrast, if there's a negative environment and behaviors like sending offensive jokes to colleagues goes unchecked, employees won't speak up when it occurs. Jenna will continue offending people until someone files a hostile work environment complaint…

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