Dear members,
A case study on sexual harassment has been uploaded on one of the WA groups. I have pasted it below:
Brief of the Case
Ms Beena Kumari had joined Management Trainee - Marketing in the company in Aug-2017 at Pune post completion of her PG in Marketing from reputed Management Institute. She is passionate about Marketing.
On 10th April 2018, one of the Distributor has asked her to visit his office for understanding product range. She had visited the place of Distributor and explained him the product range of company. The distributor told her to come again tomorrow so that he will place big order for all products.
In order to get the big order and achieve targets, Beena Kumari visited the office of Distributor next day. When she reached to the office, there were another 3 persons were sitting in the office of Distributor. The Distributor told her that they are placing orders for all products worth crores of rupees. On hearing the said news she was so happy and thanking the distributor. Later on distributor had offered her cold drink. On tasting the same she had realised that something is wrong and she insisted to leave the place. However she was not allowed to leave the office and they had made an attempt to abuse her sexually and....
Somehow she was successful to escape the situation. Next day, she had submitted her resignation to her supervisor by explaining the incidence. Management is willing to help her to file complaint in police station however she does not want to do it due to social barriers.
In view of the above, as a HR Head, the member is seeking advice on the following queries:
1. How would you deal with the situation?
2. Whether will you refer this case to Internal Committee for further investigation?
3. What are the preventive measures would you take to prevent such incidences?
4. Should we accept the resignation of Beena Kumari?
5. Any other inputs.
Request all members to kindly give your views.
Regards,
Raosaheb Kangane
HR Federation of India
Managing Committee Team
A case study on sexual harassment has been uploaded on one of the WA groups. I have pasted it below:
Brief of the Case
Ms Beena Kumari had joined Management Trainee - Marketing in the company in Aug-2017 at Pune post completion of her PG in Marketing from reputed Management Institute. She is passionate about Marketing.
On 10th April 2018, one of the Distributor has asked her to visit his office for understanding product range. She had visited the place of Distributor and explained him the product range of company. The distributor told her to come again tomorrow so that he will place big order for all products.
In order to get the big order and achieve targets, Beena Kumari visited the office of Distributor next day. When she reached to the office, there were another 3 persons were sitting in the office of Distributor. The Distributor told her that they are placing orders for all products worth crores of rupees. On hearing the said news she was so happy and thanking the distributor. Later on distributor had offered her cold drink. On tasting the same she had realised that something is wrong and she insisted to leave the place. However she was not allowed to leave the office and they had made an attempt to abuse her sexually and....
Somehow she was successful to escape the situation. Next day, she had submitted her resignation to her supervisor by explaining the incidence. Management is willing to help her to file complaint in police station however she does not want to do it due to social barriers.
In view of the above, as a HR Head, the member is seeking advice on the following queries:
1. How would you deal with the situation?
2. Whether will you refer this case to Internal Committee for further investigation?
3. What are the preventive measures would you take to prevent such incidences?
4. Should we accept the resignation of Beena Kumari?
5. Any other inputs.
Request all members to kindly give your views.
Regards,
Raosaheb Kangane
HR Federation of India
Managing Committee Team