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Case Study on Sexual Harassment at Work
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Dr. Pratik P. Surana
Madhusudan, CEO of a small organization having only six employees out of which three are females in internet marketing and web solutions business in Pune could not have sound sleep last night. One email sent by Neeta, his one female employee at about 7.45PM when he was about leave the office shocked his conscience. At that time he was alone in the office. All employees had already left the office at 6.00 PM. Neeta left the office at about 11.30 AM on that day for various pre decided customer visits. Madhusudan was surprised how could Neeta did not come to office back for reporting the progress of visits and called him on phone whole the day, instead this email.Madhusudan believes that in small organization entrepreneur should build the business on cordial relationship with employees with informal work environment and this philosophy has brought him business fruits too.
After going through the email he felt shattered. He left for home and started recollecting small fabrics of incident happened in the morning hour. Madhusudan was watching that Neeta was not in the best of the mood for a few days and was not able to concentrate on her assignment. The moment she came to office, Mashusudan asked her about the same and Neeta replied that it was not related to office.
Madhusudan also reminded her that she was not writing thought of day every morning in the office board from lad few days which was her part of duty. Neeta did not respond and kept quite on her seat which was near to the office board. Madhusudan stood up went near to the board and started writing ‘thought of the day’ with his back towards Neeta and he didn’t reliase that he was standing close to her in such fashion that his butts were close to her face.
After Neeta brought to his notice, just to cheer Neeta up, Madhusudan cracked the famous dialogue of the movie “3 Idiots” saying “Tohfa Kubool Karo”, not by enacting but simply saying words. Other employees sitting in the

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