Harassment / Intimidation

 Harassment 

Covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour that demeans, humiliates and intimidates a person and it is characteristically identified by it's likelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. "When these behaviors become repetitive it is defined as bullying.

The types of harassment are as follows:

Physical harassment 

Physical harassment refers to a type of harassment that is often related to violence like:physical attacks and threats ,in extreme cases physical harassment is also classified as sexual assault. Physical harassment is one of the most common types of harassment at home,work and community. 

Personal harassment 

Personal harassment includes behavior is defined as an offensive comment or actions that create an abusive or intimidating work environment in the mind of a reasonable person.

Discriminatory harassment 

It is based on the discrimination and stigmatization of one's race, gender, sex, health and socio-economic  statues.

Psychological harassment 

Psychological harassment is a formof vexatious behavior that invloves repeated hostile and unwanted word's behaviour or actions that are painful, hurtful,annoying,humiliating or insulting.

Sexual harassment 

Is any sexual behaviour that makes someone feel upset, scared, offended or humiliated or is meant to make them feel that way. Sexual harassment is a type of sexual violence ( the phrase we use to describe any sexual activity or act that happen without consent).

How to handle harassment 

In conclusion it is important to know that harassment can also occur outside of the work place such as through electronic communication or social media platforms.