Sexual harassment and employees’ performance at the St. Gregory Hospital

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.