Sexual Harassment and Job Involvement
Sexual Harassment (SH) is a psychometric and behavioral construct that
people use in order to meet their physical needs . Additionally, sexual
harassment is a behavioral and sexual practice of one’s political,
social, familial and professional power in order to fulfill sexual and
romantic needs. SH may take the form of unwelcomed physical attention
that being harassed party does not appreciate and he or she should cope
with it in order to continue his or her professional career (Haider &
Vaseer, 2013). Social Harassment takes place because of one’s perceived
societal strength over a communally weaker party to take sexual
advantage. Sexual coercion occurs when a supervising manager offers
professional benefits under the condition of meeting his or her sexual
needs to his or her subordinate. Harassers suspend personal and
professional rights of target persons in order to mentally and
physically force them to entertain extreme sexual possibilities .
Educational Involvement (EI) is a concept that measures one’s ability to
mentally dissolve into an educational experience and therefore, he or
she may consider academic activities as the ultimate source of spiritual
engagement. EI causes students and professionals to lose themselves into
educational experience . However, SH acts as a hindering factor for
educational growth. Students and students may have to divert their
attention to cope with harassment of sexual nature. EI suffers because
people may fail to focus on their education due to unwanted sexual
attention of teachers and fellow students. Sexual Harassment consumes
one’s educational commitment to reduce their involvement in educational
activities by diverting attention to unproductive and enforced sexual
attention and events .
Ho: SH reduces EI
Hi: SH does not predict changes in EI significantly