Uncovering Sexual Harassment Issues in the Workplace: A Study on Hotels in Egypt

Touni, Reham; Hussien, Hussien Mohamed

doi:10.21608/jaauth.2021.106036.1264

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“…This relationship highlights the significance of addressing and avoiding sexual harassment in various environments, including workplaces and social sites. Furthermore, the results of the analysis lend support to the second hypothesis, suggesting that sexual harassment of female employees significantly influences their inclination to withdraw from their job, a correlation consistent with the following studies (Cortina and Areguin, 2021;Merkin, 2008;Touni and Mohamed Hussien, 2021;Salman et al, 2016).…”

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Workplace Sexual Harassment and Withdrawal Behaviors Among Female Workers in Jordanian Hotels, the Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion

SHATNAWI,

ALANANZEH,

DARABSEH

et al. 2024

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This study explores the connection between workplace sexual harassment and the tendency of female hotel workers in Jordan to withdraw from their jobs, with a specific focus on the role of emotional exhaustion. The study involved female employees from five-star hotels in Amman, Jordan, using a convenience sampling approach, and collected 203 valid responses, achieving an 87% response rate. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), the research found that sexual harassment and emotional exhaustion directly and positively affected withdrawal behaviors. Notably, sexual harassment had a substantial positive impact on emotional exhaustion. However, the study found that emotional exhaustion did not mediate the relationship between sexual harassment and withdrawal behaviors. The coefficients of determination (R2) for emotional exhaustion and withdrawal behaviors were 0.780 and 0.841, respectively. This study underscores the prevalence of sexual harassment in Jordanian hotel workplaces, especially among female employees. It highlights that sexual harassment significantly contributes to emotional exhaustion among female workers, which, in turn, affects their inclination to leave their jobs. This emphasizes the importance of maintaining motivated and engaged female employees within the hospitality industry.

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Workplace Sexual Harassment and Withdrawal Behaviors Among Female Workers in Jordanian Hotels, the Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion

SHATNAWI,

ALANANZEH,

DARABSEH

et al. 2024

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“…However, unlike these studies and given the male-dominant management and/or ownership of travel agencies and other types of tourism institutions, female tour guides also reported experiencing the three forms (gender harassment, unwanted sexual harassment and sexual coercion) of sexual harassment, but this time the irresponsible behavior came from their managers, who are mostly Egyptians. This finding coincides with two studies on female Egyptian hotel administration trainees and employees, who described verbal harassment as the most common form reported and sexual coercion as an unreported form that approximately half of the victims suffered from (Touni and Mohamed Hussien, 2021; Yasin et al ., 2019). Such behavior of managers is consistent with Western studies pinpointing power differentials and sex-role identity as key antecedents of sexual harassment (Popovich and Warren, 2010; Owens and Hekman, 2012; Newman et al ., 2017; Waudby and Poulston, 2017; Karatepe, 2013; La Lopa and Gong, 2020).…”

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From harasser tourists to above the law managers: female tour guides strategies for coping with sexual harassment

Abdelgaffar

Salem

Chaouali

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis study examines how far female tour guides in Egypt experience sexual harassment and how they cope with it.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research method is employed, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 full-time female tour guides working for several travel agencies in Egypt. Thematic analysis was used to extract the main ideas from the transcripts.FindingsThe findings show that female tour guides in Egypt would encounter annoying gender harassment mostly from tourists they serve, and they might suffer from irresponsible behavior – gender harassment, unwanted sexual harassment, and sexual coercion – from their local managers. When facing sexual harassment, female tour guides usually tend to adopt one of the following three coping strategies: (a) indifference to sexual harassment they encounter, (b) heroism by taking legal action when exposed to sexual harassment or (c) fatalism by taking inconsequential action such as complaining the harasser to his direct manager or filling in an official complaint inside their workplace. The selection of the coping strategy is usually based on the female victim's personality and the organizational and social context she adapts to.Originality/valueThis paper contributes by filling a gap in tourism, human resources management and gender studies in which empirical studies on the sexual harassment that female tour guides encounter, particularly in non-Western contexts, have been limited so far.

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Uncovering Sexual Harassment Issues in the Workplace: A Study on Hotels in Egypt

Cited by 2 publications

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Workplace Sexual Harassment and Withdrawal Behaviors Among Female Workers in Jordanian Hotels, the Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion

Workplace Sexual Harassment and Withdrawal Behaviors Among Female Workers in Jordanian Hotels, the Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion

From harasser tourists to above the law managers: female tour guides strategies for coping with sexual harassment

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