ABSTRACT
Research linking organizational antecedents and job-related outcomes of sexual harassment has focused mainly on the person who is the direct target of sexual harassment (e.g., Fitzgerald, Drasgow, Hulin, Gelfand, & Magley, 1997; Fitzgerald, Hulin, & Drasgow, 1995). Recent research reports that effects of sexual harassment may reach beyond the target to co-workers and others in the organization (e.g., Glomb et al., 1997; Schneider, 1996; Sorenson, Luzio, & Mangione-Lambie, 1994). The study described here tests whether the effects of ambient sexual harassment extend to men in work groups where women have experienced sexual harassment. Ambient sexual harassment is defined as the general level of sexual harassment of women in a work group as measured by the frequency of sexually harassing behaviors experienced by women in a man’s work group. This study extends the framework developed by Fitzgerald et al. (1997) by examining indirect exposure to sexual harassment, that is, ambient sexual harassment, as an additional workplace stressor.
