Lurance Saleh
MGMT 520
Professor Samantha Burke
11-28-15

Week 5 You Decide

A. The Case Facts

Virginia Pollard was transferred to guard the film equipment in the main warehouse behind the storefront due to her high call volume of personal calls while at work. In her new position she experienced various harassments while at work from her fellow employees working in the warehouse. The harassments included filling the guard shack with trash, backing in a forklift up to the door and making it backfire in her ear, tapping her drawers shut, filling the guard shack with trash and locking her out of the guard shack where she sat in to watch the inventory. Virginia was also the recipient of sexual harassment when a delivery driver sat in her chair and she attempted to push him out he bent her over and spanked her. Steve King, Virginia’s supervisor rarely enforced Teddy’s rules against smoking, horseplay, foul language, and sexual harassment. It is also noted that Steve King also indulged in such behaviors along with the other staff.

Teddy’s has a sexual harassment policy that can be exercised by reporting or filing a complaint to a superior such as a supervisor or reporting it anonymously through the website that has been setup by the company. Virginia Pollard signed a copy of the sexual harassment policy that Teddy’s supplies, but she did not file a complaint with a superior or through the website anonymously. During her NJ Human Rights Commission Hearing she claims that the website was not working at the time she attempted to do so. In August 2008 an incident occurred where a sign was posted that read “HARDHAT REQUIRED AND BRA OPTIONAL”. Virginia Pollard was called over by her co-workers to view the sign and encouraged her to do as it said. After she refused King promised not to report her to management at which point she lifted one side of