Workplace sexual harassment: a qualitative study of the self-labelling process among employees in Denmark

To explore how employees understand work-related sexual harassment and label their experience. This study is based on 13 semi-structured in-depth interviews with employees exposed to workplace sexual harassment. We analysed the data using a thematic approach drawing on frameworks of sensemaking in o...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being Jg. 19; H. 1; S. 2324990
Hauptverfasser: Nielsen, Maj Britt Dahl, Skov, Sofie Smedegaard, Grundtvig, Gry, Folker, Anna Paldam, Rugulies, Reiner, Tybjerg Aldrich, Per, Clausen, Thomas, Madsen, Ida E. H.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.12.2024
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Taylor & Francis Group
Schlagworte:
Adult
Attention
Coercion
Denmark
Empirical Studies
Employees
Experience
Female
Humans
Interviews
Interviews as Topic
Job performance
Labeling
Labelling
Male
Middle Aged
Qualitative Research
qualitative study
Self labeling
self-labelling
sense-making
Sensemaking
Sexual harassment
Sexual Harassment - psychology
Social processes
Work
Workplace - psychology
Workplaces
Denmark
Work
qualitative study
sense-making
self-labelling
sexual harassment
ISSN:1748-2631, 1748-2623, 1748-2631
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Zusammenfassung:To explore how employees understand work-related sexual harassment and label their experience. This study is based on 13 semi-structured in-depth interviews with employees exposed to workplace sexual harassment. We analysed the data using a thematic approach drawing on frameworks of sensemaking in organizations. We identified four major themes. The first two themes, and , outline the interviewees' definitions of the two terms "sexual harassment" and "unwanted sexual harassment" and reveal the challenges of labelling sexually harassing behaviours at work. The last two themes; and , explain the sensemaking process, i.e., how the interviewees come to understand and label their experience. The analysis showed that the interviewees related sexual harassment with physical, coercive, and intentional behaviours, whereas unwanted sexual attention was seen as less severe and less intentional. The interviewees often doubted how to label their experience, and making sense of one´s experience could take years. Self-labelling is inherently a social process, and the validation and rejection of others play an important role. Finally, the #MeToo movement constituted a turning point for several interviewees' understandings of events.
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ISSN:1748-2631
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DOI:10.1080/17482631.2024.2324990