ABSTRACT
Despite attempts by many organizations to prohibit sexual harassment via corporate policy statements, complaint procedures, and disciplinary systems, harassment continues to be a problem in the workplace. This is because continued power imbalances inherent in male-female interaction provide a springboard for sexual harassment to occur on the job. In order to prevent rather than merely react to harassment, organizations should conduct gender-communication training programs that involve employees in the collective creation of an organizational culture free of sex-role conditioned behavior, gender-based misunderstandings, and interactional power differences. Such training should occur in conjunction with standard prohibitions and disciplinary sanctions against sexual harassment.
