Ako organizačná kultúra posilňuje toleranciu voči sexuálnemu obťažovaniu

Strany: 93 - 113

Jazyk: slo

Current literature on the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace identifies “organizational culture” as a key factor influencing the presence and persistence of harassment in specific workplaces. This literature is often based on scholarly studies that disagree in their approaches to examining organizational culture, as both the meaning boundaries of the term and the observable manifestations of culture tend to vary. Using a reflective thematic analysis of 15 research interviews, the aim of this study is to look at the so-called “organizational tolerance of sexual harassment” in the everyday communication practices of workplaces. We view the experiences that emerge in the interviews as a practice of reinforcing meanings in organizations that lead to the normalization (or tolerance) of sexual harassment and thus to the shaping of workplace structure and the enactment of symbolic power. The study focuses on 4 dominant themes that emerge in interviews with women who have experienced sexual harassment in Slovakia. Themes such as the exercise of formal and informal authority; the presence of sexuality in organizational practices of humor and familiarity; the public nature of harassment; and the unavailability of those charged with addressing sexual harassment emerge in the interviews. These dominant themes lead us to conclude that simply stating that an organization is tolerant of sexual harassment because its male and female members hold such values is not sufficient for our understanding of the issue. Rather than the static values of individuals, the themes examined help us to view organizational culture as a communicative practice in which tolerance of sexual harassment is continually reinforced through what is said and what is not. This approach also creates a space for organizational change that can focus on this everyday communication practice.

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Valkovičová, V., Karkošková, S. 2025. Ako organizačná kultúra posilňuje toleranciu voči sexuálnemu obťažovaniu. In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 73, no.1, pp. 93-113. ISSN 1335-1303. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2025.1.07

APA:

Valkovičová, V., Karkošková, S. (2025). Ako organizačná kultúra posilňuje toleranciu voči sexuálnemu obťažovaniu. Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 73(1), 93-113. ISSN 1335-1303. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2025.1.07

Vydavateľ: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV, v. v. i.

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