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You just took the quiz. Your supervisors should too.

Knowing the rules about workplace harassment is one thing. Making sure the people responsible for enforcing them actually know them — that's where liability lives.

If any of these questions gave you pause, imagine how your supervisors would answer them.

Here's what you can do right now:

  • Schedule a free consultation to talk through what's actually happening on your teams and where your exposure might be hiding.
  • Request a training quote for organization-wide harassment prevention — with supervisor-specific content built in, because managers need more than the basics.
  • Get this quiz in front of your supervisors — free. We'll administer it and help you read the results so you know exactly what your team understands, and what they don't.

Harassment prevention isn't a checkbox. It's a management competency. Let's build it.

 

Quiz Questions Answers

Thank you for completing the harassment prevention quiz! Below are your answers and feedback for each question.

1. Can supervisors and non-supervisory staff be trained together?

2. Bullying is the same as harassment.

3. Is profanity considered harassment?

4. Once an employee files a complaint, how much time does an employer have to address it?

5. Does my job have to provide harassment prevention training?

6. An employee has shared a harassment complaint with you and has asked you to keep it "off the record". Should you respect the employee's wishes?

7. A customer dislikes interacting with a member of your team because the employee is part of a group they do not like. The group that the customer objects to is any of the following: LGBTQ+, a particular race or ethnic group, a particular religious group, or individuals with disabilities. The customer has asked you make sure they never have to interact with the employee. Can you remove that employee from the team without consequence?

8. In order for a harassment complaint to be valid, the person making the complaint has to prove that the alleged harasser intended to be offensive.

9. As it relates to harassment and discrimination, on which three grounds are complaints most commonly deemed to have merit?

10. Which form of workplace harassment can only be committed by a supervisor or someone in a position of power?

11. It’s not harassment or inappropriate if a person makes inappropriate comments, including jokes and slurs, is part of the group that they are talking about. For example, a woman can make jokes and slurs about women; however, individuals who are not women cannot make jokes or slurs about women.

12. An employee who wishes to file a harassment complaint has to say something to the person who is offending them before going to their supervisor, HR, or filing a complaint with an external governmental entity that focuses on human rights or equal employment opportunities.

13. Employees are unaffected by toxic behavior as long as the behavior isn’t specifically directed at them.