The First Line of Defense: A Guide to Protecting Yourself Against Sexual Harassment

By Steven Dranoff and Wanda Dobrich

By the time an employee lodges a sexual harassment complaint, it's already too late-too late to prevent the abuse, toolate to do anything but try to punish the offender and compensatethe victim, and maybe too late to avoid a costly litigation and aneven more costly judgment. In The First Line of Defense, twoleading organizational psychologists help companies give theiremployees the tools, skills, and training they need to recognizethe early warning signs of potential sexual harassmentrelationships and defuse these situations before any actualharassment occurs. In storytelling form, the human side of sexual harassment ispresented in a way that everyone can understand. This enlighteningguide breaks the harassment experience down into its componentparts and: * analyzes the "rules" that underlie sexual harassmentrelationships * identifies the early warning signs of sexual harassment * arms potential victims with skills and techniques to detersexual harassment * helps potential harassers change their behavior in ways thatwill alter the course of the relationship Based on the authors' innovative training program, recommended to clients by Chubb and Kemper, major national sellersof sexual harassment insurance, and supported by many insurancebrokerage firms, including Willis, The Risk Practice, The FirstLine of Defense is an unparalleled resource for employers inindustry and government who must find ways to protect employees atall levels from the pain, humiliation, and trauma of sexualharassment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471353582
• ISBN13: 9780471353584
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.7" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Informative and Provocative!

A book that not only explains exactly what this controversial subject is, but does it in, dare it be said, a very entertaining way. A book that gives you all the tools and information you need in an interactive, down-to-earth way. An important book!

Great Book!

This book is a good guide to what you can and cannot do in the workplace or even in general. It is very informative and shows many different situations. He is a man with a mission and he has done it in this great book which talks about the topic like no one else has ever done before. Steven Dranoff with his partner Wanda Dobrich is also a very brilliant person who contributed a whole lot to this book to achieve its greatness. I think that if your in work and you want to keep your money if you work with any kind of people then you should pick this book up and learn about it so that you can make sure you don't ever have to deal with this problem. Better to be safe then sorry. I hope that you all enjoy this book.