ABSTRACT
The national context is likely to include legal and/or social information derived from non-national sources, such as media reporting on law. Differences among employees responding to the gender harassment vignette were again based on organizational borders rather than national borders. By far the most empirical research on sexual harassment focuses on the role of gender differences in understandings of sexual harassment. The study also examines the role of opposition to sex discrimination law in contributing to the understanding and implementation of sexual harassment law. The author included this ideological litmus-test as a measure of individual difference. Media reporting on sexual harassment will reflect some aspects of national context. To the extent that this influences employee understandings of illegality, it will be evident in these models. Hudson’s policy, although also ambiguous, more clearly covered gender harassment and it was easier to understand.
