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Status of Women committee Yes, I would agree, again, that male-dominated organizations can be like that, but oftentimes female-dominated organizations have a concentration of men at the top as well. This kind of issue can be a problem in those organizations as well. I also want to say it's important to
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee It's all right.
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee No problem. It has been a pleasure. Thank you.
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee The collection of that data is very important particularly for complainants because complainants often come to the conciliation or ADR process with absolutely no idea of what to expect, of how much financial compensation to seek, or what other non-financial settlement outcomes mi
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee Leadership is absolutely important. Those messages that sexual harassment won't be tolerated do need to come from the highest levels of any organization. However, I think a really important and missing piece of the puzzle in terms of that leadership is that leaders need to create
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee From the work that I've done, I would advocate a collective underpinning to a training program, in the sense that people who work together have a collective and collegial responsibility to look after one another and to understand the subtle gendered processes that often occur in
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee As to the causes of sexual harassment, it's important to note that sexual harassment comes in many varied shapes and forms. As I've alluded to, the typical sexual harassment scenario that we often read about in the media, and which employees understand, is the salacious conduct b
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee We've seen no great differences, and I think that's actually been an important finding of our research. It's still the case that male-on-male sexual harassment is often a problem in male-dominated workplaces, particularly in blue-collar male-dominated workplaces. I think it's imp
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee There are a lot of issues there. We've proposed in that report and also subsequently a framework of prevention and response that takes a primary, secondary, and tertiary approach. Training is an important part of primary prevention. There is, I think, a need for evaluative rese
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Paula McDonald
Status of Women committee Hello. I thought I'd begin with a synopsis of my experience in the area of workplace sexual harassment in order to put some parameters around the scope of my work and experience in the area. I am a professor of employment relations in the business school at the Queensland Unive
April 22nd, 2013Committee meeting
Professor Paula McDonald