Corporate

Managing and Preventing Harassment in the Workplace

Compliance, Quality and Health and Safety 50 hours

Introduction

The Course on Managing and Preventing Harassment in the Workplace It offers you comprehensive training in a crucial area of growing importance in today’s professional environment. A thorough understanding of workplace bullying and sexual harassment, together with effective intervention strategies, are essential skills for fostering a healthy and safe working environment. This course equips you to identify and address the causes of violence at work and promote the equality in terms of treatment and opportunities, thereby ensuring a workplace respectful y fair. Furthermore, you will learn how to design and implement equality plans, making equality an indicator of quality in business management. Demand for skilled professionals in this field is on the rise, and this online course gives you the flexibility to develop these skills from anywhere, positioning you as a key player in transforming and improving the workplace environment.

Objectives

  • Identify the causes of the workplace bullying and its implications for the workplace.

  • To recognise and classify the different types workplace violence.

  • Design strategies effective measures to prevent workplace bullying.

  • Understanding the protocol guidelines for dealing with cases of sexual harassment in the workplace.

  • To analyse the equality equality of opportunity and treatment in the workplace.

  • Assess the main theoretical models workplace conflict.

  • Apply measures equality as part of business management.

Table of Contents

TEACHING UNIT 1. MOOBING

1. Background and definition of mobbing
2. Classification of types of violence in the workplace
3. Causes of violent and aggressive behaviour
4. The parties involved
5. Intervention strategies

TEACHING UNIT 2. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

1. Types and consequences of harassment
2. Protocol on the prevention of and response to harassment in institutions
3. Organisations’ obligations and penalties in relation to sexual harassment and harassment on the grounds of sex

TEACHING UNIT 3. WOMEN AND THE WORLD OF WORK

1. Equal treatment and opportunities in access to employment, in training and career progression, and in working conditions
2. Occupational segregation
3. Discrimination
4. The new sexual dimension
5. Sexual harassment

TEACHING UNIT 4. INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT THEORY

1. Definition of conflict
2. Types of conflict
3. Main theoretical perspectives on the conflict
4. Main models of conflict

TEACHING UNIT 5. DEFINING STRESS

1. General semantic considerations
2. The common understanding of stress
3. The scientific concept of stress

TEACHING UNIT 6. THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF STRESS

1. The fight-or-flight response
2. General adaptation syndrome
3. Mason’s psychoendocrinology
4. Hess’s diencephalic systems

TEACHING UNIT 7. THE EQUALITY PLAN IN THE WORKPLACE

1. Structure of the Equality Plan
2. Features of the Equality Plan
3. Measures to promote equality within the company
4. Drawing up the equality plan: stakeholders
5. Equality as an indicator of quality in business management
6. Equality management in organisations: the 6 i method

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