IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/zib/zbnsvs/v4y2022i2p41-45.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Employees’ Perception Of Sexual Harassment And Its Impacts On Employee Performance In Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Veronica Adu Brobbey

    (Department of Management Education, Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skill Training and Entrepreneurship Development)

  • Richard Asiedu

    (International University of Malaya-Walse, Faculty of Arts and Science)

  • Philip Opoku Mensah

    (Department of Human Resources and Organisational Development, School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.)

  • Frank Asamoah Antwi

    (Department of Human Resources and Organisational Development, School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.)

  • Eric Forenten Sie

    (Department of Human Resources and Organisational Development, School of Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.)

  • Aaron Kumah

    (Department of Management Education, Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skill Training and Entrepreneurship Development)

Abstract

Sexual harassment is any form of unwanted and dissenting sexual advances aimed toward another person. The drive of this paper is to understand how Ghanaian employees perceive sexual harassment in the Ghanaian work environment and how sexual harassment affects harassed employee work performance. This study adopted a qualitative research method using the semi-structured interview to collect data from 30 participants from six public and private companies. The findings of the study indicate that workers in Ghana perceived sexual harassment as demanding sexual favors from the opposite sex, touching of buttocks and or breast and kissing, superior enticing or forcing subordinate to have an intimate affair or relationship with, untoward behavior of staff towards the opposite sex or other skirmishes towards the opposite sex with a sexual connotation, any situation where a male or a female uses his or her position to make sexual advances to another person at the workplace, looking or commenting on any part of the body of which the victim may interpret as being offensive, forcing a female or male worker to go to bed with. The study further revealed that sexual harassment had negative impacts on the harassed employees’ performance. The study offers some important recommendations and implications for consideration.

Suggested Citation

  • Veronica Adu Brobbey & Richard Asiedu & Philip Opoku Mensah & Frank Asamoah Antwi & Eric Forenten Sie & Aaron Kumah, 2022. "Employees’ Perception Of Sexual Harassment And Its Impacts On Employee Performance In Ghana," Social Values & Society (SVS), Zibeline International Publishing, vol. 4(2), pages 41-45, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:zib:zbnsvs:v:4:y:2022:i:2:p:41-45
    DOI: 10.26480/svs.02.2022.41.45
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://socvsoc.com/archive1/2svs2022/2svs2022-41-45.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.26480/svs.02.2022.41.45?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zib:zbnsvs:v:4:y:2022:i:2:p:41-45. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Zibeline International Publishing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://socvsoc.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.