The Impact of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Ubiquity and Frequency on Attitude towards Absenteeism and Actual Absenteeism

摘要

The topic of hostile environment sexual harassment (HE:SH) has received considerable attention because HE:SH is found to affect several employee outcomes. This paper is a preliminary study that measures the relationship between HE:SH and absenteeism. We first show the increased importance of HE:SH through the inclusion of several landmark cases. Then we develop scales to measure two of the major aspects of HE:SH, ubiquity and frequency. We also measure attitude towards absenteeism through these scales. We found that attitude towards absenteeism acts as a mediator for the relationship between HE:SH frequency (but not ubiquity) and actual absenteeism.