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Shuja Asif Zoya Research PPR
ABSTRACT
Students are increasingly targeting teachers with provocative stares, inappropriate
flirtation, and offensive remarks, among other behaviors. In light of this, the current study
examined the effect of pupil-perpetrated sexual harassment on teachers' work-related
outcomes such as in role performance, job satisfaction, and desire to leave the profession.
Sample of 243 female knowledge workers is collected from different educational
institutes of Pakistan. The statistical analysis demonstrated that sexual harassment by
pupil contributes to knowledge worker’s work performance, work satisfaction and
turnover intention. They become unsatisfied with their employment, their performance
suffers, and they develop intents to leave. Despite its limits, the work makes numerous
significant theoretical contributions to scholarly inquiry. In addition, it offers
management of educational institutions some helpful suggestions that would not only
assist them in controlling students' sexually offensive activities, but also prevent
victimized knowledge workers from adopting work-withdrawal habits and attitudes.
KEYWORDS
Pupil-on-knowledge worker sexual harassment, job satisfaction, in role performance,
turnover intention.
1. INTRODUCTION
Sexual harassment is one of the many forms of workplace mistreatment that can be
found in educational institutions. Recently, researchers have begun to focus their
attention on sexual harassment due to the negative effects it has on teaching staff
members' minds, bodies, and work-related outcomes (Sullivan et al., 2013; Garrett, 2014;
Alat, 2015; O'Mochain, 2019). According to Tsai and Kleiner (1999), the term "sexual
harassment" refers to situations in which the inappropriate or sexually offensive behavior
of a party interferes with the ability of an employee to fulfill their job duties or
contributes to the creation of an uncomfortable or hostile atmosphere. In comparison to
other forms of mistreatment, it is nearly impossible to describe sexual harassment and
identify its components as well as its limits. What one person considers to be a kind of
sexual harassment may be seen by another person as being completely non-threatening
(Franke, 1997).
Despite the fact that sexual harassment of teachers can be committed by a wide range
of people, including other teachers, head teachers, students, and non-teaching staff
members, the focus of this study is solely on sexual harassment committed by students
against instructors. Sexual harassment committed by students against faculty members is
a serious problem, in particular due to the widespread and escalating character of the
problem. According to previous research, student-on-teacher sexual harassment can lead
to seriously detrimental outcomes such as withdrawal behaviors (Høigaard, Giske, &
Sundsli, 2012), emotional stability (Ferfolja, 2010), burnout (Robinson, 2012), and poor
psychological health (Kim & Lee, 2014).
3. METHODOLOGY
A computer-based survey was recently carried out among female faculty members at
educational institutions of Pakistan. This was done in light of the fact that women are
disproportionately affected by sexual harassment and assault in the academic world. The
fact that neither their identities nor the names of their universities were requested helped
maintain the confidentiality of the information. By submitting responses to an online
questionnaire, a number of female knowledge workers participated in the research study.
In order to determine the effects of pupil-on-knowledge worker sexual harassment on
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work performance, job satisfaction and turnover intention. Sample of 243 female
knowledge workers was used, an English questionnaire using a Likert scale with five
points was devised because the researchers anticipated the participants in the study from
prestigious educational institutes. We kept it brief so as not to impose an undue burden on
already overworked instructors during the busiest part of the semester. The research
conducted by McKinney (1990) was used to modify four questions in order to measure
the amount of sexual harassment that was perpetrated by students. For the purpose of
evaluating turnover intention symptoms, four-item scale of turnover intention by (Cohen
et al., 1983) were used. Job satisfaction is measured using the six-item scale (Brayfield &
Rothe, 1951) and for in role performance 5 items was used after modifying established by
Williams & Anderson (1991).
Table 1
Descriptive Statistics, Reliability and Correlation Analysis
Variables Mean S.D P_KW_SH IRP JS TI
P_KW_SH 2.4516 .96422 (0.817)
IRP 1.6074 .71543 -.028 (0.867)
JS 2.5693 1.06993 -.121 -.157* (0.926)
TI 2.8107 1.08791 0.310** -.096 -.025 (0.887)
common persons who were harassed, but now it is students who harass professors by
making inappropriate jokes, giving them inappropriate looks, calling them cat names, and
other forms of harassment. In view of this problematic issue, the purpose of this research
was to investigate the ways in which sexual harassment on the Structural Equation
Modeling (SEM) was utilized throughout the analysis process (Asada et al., 2020; Junoh
et al., 2019; Basheer et al., 2019a; Muneer et al., 2019; Basheer et al., 2019b; Basheer et
al., 2018), and Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to examine and evaluate the
validity of the instruments (CFA). The horrifying practice of instructors sexually
assaulting and exploiting their students in the classroom is something that has been going
on for a long time. However, the distribution of power inside academic institutions has
seen significant shifts in recent decades. It used to be that students were the most
common persons who were harassed, but now it is students who harass professors by
making inappropriate jokes, giving them inappropriate looks, calling them cat names, and
other forms of harassment. In view of this problematic issue, the purpose of this research
was to investigate the ways in which sexual harassment on the part of students and
burnout affect one another. part of students and burnout affect one another.
In model fitness indexes, χ2/ df = 4.99, AGFI = 0.824, TLI = 0.848, CFI = 0.890,
GFI = 0.898 and RMSEA = 0.082. Specifically, hypothesis 1 which claimed that pupil-
on-knowledge worker sexual harassment is negatively related with teachers’ in role
performance was confirmed.
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In model fitness indexes, χ2/ df = 3.15, AGFI = 0.873, TLI = 0.937, CFI = 0.952,
GFI = 0.922 and RMSEA = 0.084. Specifically, hypothesis 2 which claimed that pupil-
on-knowledge worker sexual harassment is negatively related with teachers’ job
satisfaction was confirmed.
In model fitness indexes, χ2/ df = 2.27, AGFI = 0.923, TLI = 0.960, CFI = 0.973, GFI
= 0.959 and RMSEA = 0.073. Specifically, hypothesis 3 which claimed that pupil-on-
knowledge worker sexual harassment is positively related with teachers’ turnover
intention was confirmed.
Table 2
Direct Effects
Path Coefficient SE
P_KW_SH TI .415*** .094
P_KW_SH JS -.219 .099
P_KW_SH IRP -.017 .063
5. CONCLUSIONS
When the topic of sexual harassment at educational institutions is brought up, the
majority of the time we discuss the actions of male instructors who sexually harass their
students by inappropriately touching them, asking them for inappropriate favors, or
making vulgar comments about them. What we don't talk about, at least in Pakistan, are
the female teachers who are subjected to sexual harassment at the hands of their male
students. This study investigates the interaction between student-on-teacher sexual
harassment, burnout, and work-related outcomes in an effort to shed light on a
contentious issue that has received little attention in previous research (i.e., in role
performance, job satisfaction and turnover intent). According to the study's findings,
burnout acts as a causal link that mediates the relationship between student-perpetrated
sexual harassment and the three job-based effects that teachers experience. In light of this
fact, educational institutions are being urged to carefully manage the emotional
experiences of teachers who have been subjected to sexual harassment or who have
experienced burnout. This will not only increase the teachers' levels of job satisfaction
and teaching performance, but it will also increase their level of commitment to the
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teaching profession in general. Its results show that teacher pupil-on-knowledge worker
sexual harassment have significantly positively effect on turnover intention and have
negatively effect on in role performance and job satisfaction. Not only should academic
institutions take this into consideration when dealing with the feelings of teachers
regarding sexual harassment and burnout, but they should also do so in a sensitive
manner in order to improve not only their job satisfaction and teaching abilities, but also
their commitment to the job and the teaching profession as a whole.
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