THE IMPACT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ON REPORTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW

This meta-analytic review integrates the micro perspective theory of coping responses with the macro perspective theory of institutional theory of moral collapse to understand the likeliness of the employee reporting sexual harassment. Based on previous research, classifications of individual, industry, and country level factors are proposed that impact the reporting of sexual harassment and then used in the analysis of 248 studies with 284 independent samples, containing 538,426 study participants. This study showed that employees with positive job attitudes were less likely to report sexual harassment as their coping response. Perceptions of the global environment is a relatively more important predictor of reporting sexual harassment over individual difference variables of age and tenure under the institutional theory of moral collapse. The power distance and masculinity norms of the country where the business is located as well as the industry of the business moderates the relations between the perceptions of the global organizational environment and reporting sexual harassment as a coping response. In the discussion, I identify several gaps in the literature, suggest directions for future research, and highlight organizational policies to reduce the risk of sexual harassment.