Organizational climate, leadership and individual responses to sexual harassment in the active duty military

Abstract

This analysis explores patterns of response to the harassment experiences that had the greatest effect on the respondents to the "1988 Department of Defense (DoD) Survey of Sex Roles In the Active-Duty Military.· We analyze the respondents perceptions about effectiveness of their responses, and respondents' opinions about the efforts of senior military leadership, and their own immediate supervisor's efforts to "make honest and reasonable efforts to stop sexual harassment In the activity military" (DoD, 1988). Results Indicate that attempts to stop sexual harassment must focus on two efforts simultaneously: lowering actual Incidence, and providing a safe organizational environment In which policies to redress Incidents can be utilized without fear of negative consequences.