How Does Sexual Harassment Influence the Female Employee’s Negative Response in a Deluxe Hotel?

Hyo Sun Jung and Hye Hyun Yoon
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Hyo Sun Jung: Center for Converging Humanities, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea
Hye Hyun Yoon: Department of Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 24, 1-13

Abstract: Today, organizations face risky legal and financial consequences stemming from a single sexual harassment event. The purpose of this study was to verify that the sexual harassment, as perceived by female employees, significantly affects their levels of psychological distress and workplace deviant behavior to investigate the moderating role of organizational silence and psychological detachment in the causal relationship. First, this study found that perceived sexual harassment has a negative impact on the female employees’ psychological distress and workplace deviant behavior. This study’s results also demonstrated that psychological distress has a positive impact on workplace deviant behavior. Additionally, the influence of perceived sexual harassment on psychological distress increased when the employees’ psychological detachment was weak. Finally, limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

Keywords: sexual harassment; psychological distress; deviant behavior; organizational silence; psychological detachment; female employee; deluxe hotel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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