Conflict Resolution Scenario

A female Hispanic floriculture supervisor, Ana Mendez, has reported to Employee Relations that she has been sexually harassed by Ellis Wilson in which he has created a hostile working environment by frequently stopping by to see her at her worksite and constantly commenting on how sexy she is and pressing her to “just go for a few drinks” on too many occasions. She declares she has rejected his advances and informed him if he did not stop harassing her she would report it to management. He did not stop. Ellis‘ position is that he happens to have work and audits to be done in areas where she happens to be. He does not believe any comments complimenting her should be taken as seriously because he is just a friendly type of guy. Ellis does not seem to realize when certain actions can be perceived as sexual harassment.

Employee Relations Manager, Roberto Miranda, discussed the matter with you. You direct Roberto to apply conflict resolution techniques in hopes of keeping the matter from accelerating into a full-fledged EEOC complaint. Smith has informed you he wants this matter resolved quietly and quickly.

Design a conflict resolution that is reasonable, fair to both sides, and results in everyone being educated about sexual harassment in the workplace.

Use headings to appropriately signal the topics and keep your document organized

Use a minimum of three in-text citation sources within your paper and identify them in your APA correctly formatted References page.

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Sexual harassment in the workplaces has been addressed in the constitution under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. It is defined as an unwelcomed sexual behavior to a person where the person feels intimidated, humiliated or offended (Bernstein, 2018). In our case scenario, Ana Mendez feels harassed by Ellis Wilson and decides to report the case to the employee’s relation manager. In my discussion, I will come up with a reasonable conflict resolution that will not be favoring any of the sides. As reported Mr. Wilson had been telling Ana how sexy she was and he even invited her on some occasions for some drinks which refused.

In the formation of the conflict resolution plan one thing that must be known to the two is that sexual harassment takes many courses and has some regrettable consequences…

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