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Post By: Adam Turteltaub
Sexual harassment cases are always difficult, all the more so at the United Nations. The organization has more than 120,000 employees and literally spans the globe. What’s considered acceptable behavior in one culture is not in another, and, of course, standards of behavior keep rising.
In this podcast, Cedric Bourgeois (Principal Investigator with UNESCO) and Katrina Campbell (Campbell Ethics Consulting and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University), explain that the UN, like countless other organizations, has had to evolve its own practices for managing allegations of harassment, particularly when it came to handling of the victim. Traditionally the person making an allegation was treated as just one element of an investigation. Now the UN has adopted a victim-first point of view.
Other changes at the UN include the hiring of more women as investigators, seeing thorough harassment investigations as a part of being an employer of choice and recognizing that this is a long-term process.
Listen in to learn more about what the UN has been doing in this important and sensitive area, as well as lessons for your own organization.