Abstract:
This study sought to examine the influence of sexual harassment on employee’s
performance at the St. Gregory Hospital in the central region of Ghana. The
study employed structured questionnaire to collect primary data from all the
employees of St. Gregory Catholic hospital for the analyses. The quantitative
method was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The Statistical Package
for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used in the data processing. The Cronbach’s
alpha values obtained for all variables fall within the threshold, suggesting that
all the variables used in the study have relatively high internal consistency. The
data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis. It was found that sexual
harassment have a significance negative influence on employees’ performance.
It was also found that sexual harassment positively influence absenteeism,
employees to commit more mistakes and affect employees to work slowly. It is
recommended that Ministry of health should issue specific policy prohibiting
sexual harassment in health institutions. In addition, management of health
institutions should focus on sexual harassment education programmes on
empowerment of employees to enable them to be bold to report cases of sexual
harassment.
