Coping with workplace sexual harassment: Social media as an empowered outcome

Akanksha Malik, Shuchi Sinha and Sanjay Goel

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 150, issue C, 165-178

Abstract: We explore how victims of workplace sexual harassment (WSH) cope with the experiences and use social media to share their experiences. Based on the coping and empowerment literature, we propose a psychological path model that investigates WSH victim’s appraisal of and coping with the experience, using social media as an empowered outlet. We consider victim’s justice orientation, psychological capital, and social support alongside a belief in interactional empowerment through online communities. We analyzed data from 563 survey respondents and found that social media is likely to be used as a resource by victims who engage in active coping, as opposed to passive coping, and who believe in interactional empowerment through online communities. This study highlights the possibilities of social media for empowering victims of a power-laden act of WSH. We offer several practical insights to organizations for addressing and managing acts of WSH in the social media era.

Keywords: Coping; Interactional empowerment; #MeToo; Social media; Workplace sexual harassment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.018

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