Investigating Workplace Harassment: How to Be Fair, Thorough, and Legal

By Amy Oppenheimer and Craig Pratt

Book Overview

Detailing specific, experienced-based techniques for conducting investigations of harassment based on gender, race, religion, national origin, age, or disability, this tutorial provides advice on every step of an investigation--planning, documenting, interviewing, weighing evidence, making a decision, and taking remedial action. General principles are illustrated with examples drawn from specific situations or lawsuits. Appendices include such information as a model harassment policy and a sample memo initiating investigation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586440306
• ISBN13: 9781586440305
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Society for Human Resource Management
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

really useful book

This book is a very practical, well-written guide to workplace issues. It clearly sets out both law and practice. I think this book is useful to both lawyers and lay people alike. It is also very readable with a great many examples given. I recommend it highly.

Highly informative and good reading

As a social worker I found that this book made an extremely valuable contribution to my understanding the issues around workplace harrassment. The book is written with clarity and sensitivity. Randi Blom, MSW

Plain speaking about a delicate set of issues

I like the clear, judgement-free approach, and the no-nonsense, bedrock feeling of fairness and reality. I especially like the fact that the book is written in plain English, for audiences of all intelligence and experience levels.Even though I'm not a professional in the field, it was helpful for me as a small business owner to get a better idea of what goes on in the workplace. I'm sure it would be doubly helpful to HR folks, and anyone running or managing an enterprise, or a department.