A research of sexual harassment in hotel management

This study aims to determine at what extent sexual harrasment which is an important matter in tourism industry, in business life and it also aims to evaluate this event in terms of human resources management by making a comparison of sexual harrasment among departments. The questionary prepeared in scope of the research consists of 3 parts. In the first part, there are questions which show the demographic characteristics of employees participating the questionary and in the second part , there are questions which show 12 different dimesions of sexual harrasment. The last part includes the feelings of sexually harrassed ones and questions related to the sexual harrasment politics and protections of the business they work. This questionary has been carried out to 503 randomly chosen persons working in five star hotels in Antalya and İstanbul regions.In analysis part, assessments according to demographics characteristics have been made and statistical data have beeen centred. According the all answers about demographics, generally woman employers are harrassed more than men employeers. Also employeers of front Office, food and beverage and housekeeping departments generally are harrassed more than the other department employers.According to the departments underlying the research, comparasion of sexual harrasment have been categorised in accordance with the departments of employees and as a result of this, the guestions relating the departments heve been centred. The questionaries have been evaluated using SPSS and shown in charts in the study. In analysis part, was used t-test that find the difference between groups. Also used post-tukey test between which groups difference each other.Also there are some guestions in third part about; when the employeers are harresed what they feel and what they do as psychological.Finally, after all data have been centred statically, some suggestions have been made to prevent and resolve such matters.