Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
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NACRA - North American Case Research Association
Length: 13 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
A female employee in a state mental hospital used sex and current sexual harassment and discriminative regulations to continually harass superiors and co-workers to get her way within the institution. Her threats of discrimination and sexual harassment served as employment insurance and counterbalanced charges of sexual misconduct with her supervisors and co-workers and of her abusive behaviors toward patients. Although these behaviors were well known, because she had a strong loyal male following within the hospital, administrators did not believe they could marshal sufficient documentation to call for her resignation without attracting damaging publicity and becoming involved in expensive litigation. The incidents described occurred at a time when the hospital itself was a political football in the state legislature. The case illustrates the difficulties of dismissing employees for just cause when unethical employees resort to blackmail in highly political situations that extend far beyond organizational boundaries.
Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
NACRA - North American Case Research Association
Length: 14 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
A female employee in a state mental hospital used sex and current sexual harassment and discriminative regulations to continually harass superiors and co-workers to get her way within the institution. Her threats of discrimination and sexual harassment served as employment insurance and counterbalanced charges of sexual misconduct with her supervisors and co-workers and of her abusive behaviors toward patients. Although these behaviors were well known, because she had a strong loyal male following within the hospital, administrators did not believe they could marshal sufficient documentation to call for her resignation without attracting damaging publicity and becoming involved in expensive litigation. The incidents described occurred at a time when the hospital itself was a political football in the state legislature. The case illustrates the difficulties of dismissing employees for just cause when unethical employees resort to blackmail in highly political situations that extend far beyond organizational boundaries.
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Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
NACRA - North American Case Research Association
Length: 14 pages
Data source: Field research