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Will She Fitin?Ashish Mittal 2011071

Gaurav Dani 2011178Piyush Sharoff 2011097Prateek jha 2011100

Pronit Kakati 2011101

Sanmeet Singh 2011107

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The Case Summary Susan Carter was a partner at Crowne group,

a strategy consulting firm in New York. The firmhas 98 partners only 4 of them are women

Susan works for the Pellmore account withBrian Hanson, group senior vice president atthe Pellmore industries

Brian makes sexual advances during ameeting

Susan is not sure if she should report theincident or remain silent.

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What are the actionimplications for women

working at senior levels?

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Report the Incident

Positives Firms will be sensitive towards gender bias It will help them form stricter regulations protecting

employees and partners and also including clauses forclients.

Negatives Lead to loss of Business. It may affect Career Progression as the incident may

be looked upon as risk.

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File a law suit

Positives Social message to all firms to strengthen their sexual

harassment laws. She may be compensated and Brian may be punished

which may serve as a example.

Negatives Lead to loss of Business. Her profession career could come to an end due to

rising controversy..

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Raise the issue informally

Positives Get the superiors in confidence. Will help form stronger policies without creating much

panic.

Negatives May looked upon as a risk in the organization. It may affect Career Progression as the incident may

be looked upon as risk.

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Remain Silent

Positives It will not risk her career progression. She will continue to have good will with her bosses.

Negatives Send a wrong impression about her to the offender. She will loose her self esteem. She may not be able to work with the same efficiency

which can affect her career

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What should organizations doto avoid situations like what

happened in Crowne?

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Have strong laws protecting sexual

harassment law and gender bias for allstakeholders.

Have strict laws like restrict meetings to

conference rooms of hotels.

Employ more women in senior positions.

Have a department for periodic checks sothat such incidents do not go unreported.

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What organizational principles

are broken in the case of theseries of events which

happened in Crowne

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Organizations forbid discussing clients with

outsiders.

Gender Bias-Female employees were nottreated at par with male employees.

Policies were not clearly communicated soSusan was in dilemma for her action.

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Thank you!