This case centres around a senior vice-president in a private bank, who becomes aware of a potential sexual harassment (SH) case within his team. The case captures his reactions, right from his initial attempt to understand the scenario, to his conversations with the woman concerned, and his eventual attempt to minimise the incident. The purpose of the case is to explore how such incidents can play out in the Indian corporate sector, where socio-cultural factors and gender role expectations influence the way organisational members perceive and respond to the complaints. Influence of factors such as gender role expectations, power dynamics, office politics, individual differences, and business concerns in a) perception of harassment incidents and b) attributes related to harassment incidents
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July 03 2019
That's a case of sexual harassment… Isn't it?
Vaibhavi Kulkarni
Vaibhavi Kulkarni
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
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October 16 2020
Online ISSN: 2633-3260
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Kulkarni V (2019;), "That's a case of sexual harassment… Isn't it?". Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/CASE.IIMA.2020.000202
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