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How can a newly born organization build an organizational culture that avoids sexual misconduct as much as possible?

• moron4hire 9y ago
  It's very easy. Be polite and considerate. To be considerate: to consider the feelings of another person. Have empathy. Be always ready to call out bad behavior, even if it hurts. It is so much easier to start when problems are small. Even when I've worked in teams of all guys, I've called out the sort of "locker room" talk that would be an HR nightmare of women were around. For two reasons: practice makes perfect, and it's still sexual harassment if those sorts of comments are making one of the other men uncomfortable. You don't know their intimate lives. They could be gay. They could be devoutly religious. Jerk, they could just be not a fratboy pig that needs to make comments during lunch about every woman that passes by. We do these things for everyone.
• kevmo 9y ago
  Proactively: Be overt about your policies and values. Even though everyone will shift uncomfortably and roll their eyes, have occasional training sessions. Make a discussion of "what is not ok to say" part of your onboarding process. Have 1 on 1s. Collect anonymized feedback. Reactively: When offensive behavior occurs, it has to be nipped in the bud ASAP. A quick chat with a junior employee (and maybe perhaps handing over a pamphlet on sexual harassment) may be all it takes. Egregious and/or repeat offenders should be fired.
• femwarrior 9y ago
  By hiring exclusively men, or exclusively women.
• pm90 9y ago
  This is a good question, and perhaps the best thing to do is to have a clear policy in place on whats OK and whats not. Beyond that, of course its completely upto the person. You can never know how someone will behave in every circumstance, so you can only do so much.