Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy: Challenges for the Public Sector Workplace

Reese, Laura A.; Lindenberg, Karen E.

ISBN 10: 0761911448 / ISBN 13: 9780761911449

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy: Challenges for the Public Sector Workplace
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761911448
• ISBN 13: 9780761911449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Widespread sexual harassment in the public sector makes implementing sexual harassment policy a decidedly necessary task. In this book, the authors focus on the implementation of policy in public sector organizations using an analysis of case studies and survey data. The authors identify four major challenges to implementing sexual harassment policies and examine each starting with a description and concluding with specific recommendations for overcoming the challenges in policy making.

About the Author

Laura A. Reese is professor of political science and director of the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Her research on economic development, public finance, civic culture and workplace harassment has been published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and many other journals. She has written 10 books of which three, including Comparative Civic Culture, were published in 2012. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Wayne State University in 1985.