Harassment Prevention

Workplace bullying negatively affects organizational resilience and performance, hindering employees’ best efforts and overall success.

While harassment prevention training fortifies workers with the knowledge they need, bystander training becomes the actionable takeaway.

Whether you’re searching for a training solution to comply with your state’s requirements or aiming to affirm your company values, you’ve likely come across a plethora of eLearning options and seen that formats range from simple slide-based courses to full video-based training and everything in between.

In the years since the #MeToo movement went viral, it impacted the regulatory landscape and forever changed how we prioritize preventing harassment in the workplace. During that time, many companies have tried to create awareness and bring about change, including using harassment prevention training.

Prompted by cultural movements like #MeToo, there is a new awareness of the damage harassment can do. But while we might want to think workplace harassment is behind us, it’s not.

We all know conflict can be uncomfortable—and arguably even more so in the workplace as we navigate power balance, hierarchical dynamics, and employee relationships.

Post-pandemic, mental health in the workplace has become a priority as never before—and preventing harassment is at the heart of the issue. One community-based mental health organization puts it this way, “When you are harassed at the workplace, this makes more room for anxiety to appear.”

Did you know that anyone can be an active bystander? The city of Chicago believes in this so strongly that they have recently mandated organizations to provide bystander training for all employees. And we at Kantola are responding.

Many organizations are taking measures to prevent harassment, but did you know that there are some specific challenges that are unique to the hospitality industry? It has to do with a blurring of boundaries between work and social activities that can create a situation where workplace harassment may go unchecked. Let’s look at the realities of harassment in the hospitality industry, why there is a prevalence of this kind of behavior—and the concrete steps that HR professionals like you and other business leaders can take to prevent it.

Harassment in the workplace can happen anywhere, but in the manufacturing and industrial sectors, it can pose a major risk by exacerbating an already critical issue: a shortage of talent. Let’s look at what the statistics tell us about harassment in this industry, why it’s critical to address it, now more than ever, and explore some concrete steps for making large-scale change.