Same-sex sexual harassment: A legal assessment with implications for organizational policy

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 105-119

  Knapp, Deborah Erdos ^a   Kustis, Gary A ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b O'Brien Passen and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Legal assessment; Organizational policy; Same sex sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007137786     PISSN: 08927545     EISSN: 15733378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011187609194     Document Type: Article

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