Establish A Respectful Workplace To Counteract Interpersonal Workplace Harassment

Creating an organizational environment that engenders favorable employee behaviors is essential to reduce and eliminate interpersonal mistreatment and workplace harassment. Organization managers and human resource professionals can create a respectful workplace that incorporates effective preventive and remedial measures. Research findings from various streams in the organizational behavior literature are synthesized to develop a model of respect which is explained in order to aid practitioners in implementing important elements of a respectful workplace. Creating an organizational environment that engenders favorable employee behaviors is essential to reduce and eliminate interpersonal mistreatment and workplace harassment. Organization managers and human resource professionals can reduce the occurrence of these antisocial behaviors by implementing appropriate preventive and remedial measures.