An employee is meeting with a supervisor to discuss their concerns.

Addressing

Inappropriate Conduct

It is important for supervisors to stop inappropriate conduct as soon as they become aware of it and before it escalates. Allowing anyone in the workplace to make inappropriate comments, remarks, innuendos, or jokes without addressing them can lead to a hostile work environment.

Let’s take a look at an example of how inappropriate conduct, left unchecked, can quickly escalate to a complaint of sexual harassment.