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A senior executive was so blatant in hitting on female employees at an annual convention that his suite was nicknamed the “Cosby suite.” Yet complaints led to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Unfortunately, at Activision Blizzard the leaders were very much involved in the harassment. Our videos on ethical leadership point out that most adults do not have an adequate moral compass and look to their leaders for guidance. A “frat boy” or “bro” culture is a recipe for disaster, especially when 80% of the employees are male.īecause of the obedience to authority phenomenon, the actions of leaders have an out-sized impact on the actions of regular workers.

#Quid pro quo the sinking city how to

Because of the conformity bias we tend to take our cues as to how to act from those around us. Culture is all-important in organizations. These allegations spell out exactly what folks interested in behavioral ethics would expect to see. As a result of these complaints, female employees were subjected to retaliation, including but not limited to being deprived of work on projects, unwillingly transferred to different units, and selected for layoffs. An internal investigation into the human resource unit noted that there was a “big lack of trust” and that “HR not held in high regard.” Unsurprisingly, employees’ complaints were treated in a perfunctory and dismissive manner and not kept confidential. Employees were further discouraged from complaining as human resource personnel were known to be close to alleged harassers. But, Defendants failed to take effective remedial measures in response to these complaints. Numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation were made to Defendants’ human resources personnel and executives, including to Blizzard Entertainment’s President J.The message is not lost on their employees. Defendants continuously condone the quid pro quo and hostile work environment.

In a particularly tragic example, a female employee committed suicide during a business trip with a male supervisor who had brought butt plugs and lubricant with him on the trip. High-ranking executives and creators engaged in blatant sexual harassment without repercussions. Female employees are subjected to constant sexual harassment, including having to continually fend off unwanted sexual comments and advances by their male co-workers and supervisors and being groped at the “cube crawls” and other company events.

Unsurprisingly, Defendants’ “frat boy” culture is a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women.

Male employees proudly come into work hungover, play video games for long periods of time during work while delegating their responsibilities to female employees, engage in banter about their sexual encounters, talk openly about female bodies, and joke about rape. In the office, women are subjected to “cube crawls” in which male employees drink copious amounts of alcohol as they “crawl” their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees.

Defendants have also fostered a pervasive “frat boy” workplace culture that continues to thrive.

More terrifying are the sexual harassment allegation, which read, in part: The State alleges that only 20% of ABI’s workforce is women, that its top leadership is now and always has been white and male, that women who do reach higher roles are paid less than men in comparable roles, and on and on. The complaint begins with sadly familiar claims of sex discrimination in hiring, firing, compensation and other aspects of the employment relationship that are all too common in industry, especially in the tech field. California’s 29-page complaint ( ) richly documents two forms of unethical sexual discrimination.

(ABI) (a group of companies responsible for “Call of Duty,” “Candy Crush,” “World of Warcraft,” etc.) and the recent lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Although as we write this blog entry the headlines are filled with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment woes, with this post we focus on the video gaming firm Activision Blizzard, Inc. The evidence is clear that the #MeToo movement has much work left to do.