Week 9 EOC The Apartment Quid Pro Quo

The Apartment is a movie that had a great deal of things goin on in it that made the movie a thing that you were able to watch the charcters in the moive play a great deal of harassment on each other. This type of harassment is Quid pro quo. . One of the main harassment I saw was quid pro quo. Quid pro quo (sexual harassment): Quid pro quo literally means “something for something.”Harassment that occurs when a supervisor behaves in a way or demands actions from an employee that forces the employee to decide between giving in to sexual demands or losing her or his job, losing job benefits or promotion, or otherwise suffering negative consequences.(Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 351. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online). The main topic of quid pro quo in The Apartment is when C.C. Baxter lends his apartment for a few hours to his bosses, who are having an affair with other women in the company. “Managers should use zero-tolerance harassment policies to take action even for offensive conduct that does not meet the legal standard of a harassing environment. The reason is that even mild forms of harassment that go unchecked can disrupt an operation through decreased morale and productivity and increased employee turnover” (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 355. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online). Which is why it is prohibited to have any sexual relationship with another person within the company. In this case, Mr. Sheldrick was using the women in the company, having sexual relations and making them think that they belong together, lie to them and ultimately leaving them. Mr. Sheldrick even fired his secretary, and former lover, because she exposes his secrets to his current lover. “In U.S. legal terms, sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual advance or conduct on the job that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. Such environments are unsafe for employees both physically and mentally. In real-life terms, harassing behavior ranges from repeated offensive or belittling jokes to outright physical assault. In the hospitality industry, workers can be subject to extreme forms of harassment by coworkers and customers.”( Hayes, D. and Ninemeier, J. (2008). Having sexual relations with your co-worker or boss, in the case, can cause a multitude of issues within that relationship and company.