Please complete this survey taking the following definitions in mind:

HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT
A hostile work environment exists when the harassment is so severe and pervasive that it alters your ability to do your job. The behavior must be more than just offensive; it must be objectively abusive. The harasser can be anyone in the workplace, including a supervisor, coworker, or even a customer or client.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Behavior characterized by the making of unwelcome and in appropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace or other professional or social situation.

PLEASE NOTE: Witnessing improper physical conduct is also sexual harassment

BULLYING
Bullying is an ongoing and deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behavior that intends to cause physical, social and/or psychological harm. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power, or perceived power, over one or more persons who feel unable to stop it from happening.

BIAS OR UNFAIR TREATMENT
One of the most common types of bias in the workplace is favoring employees for reasons other than excellent job performance. Favoritism occurs when a biased manager gravitates to certain personality types, such as extroverts who are allowed to take over meetings and ignore everyone else.

DISCRIMINATION
Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

FAVORTISM
Favoritism is the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.

HARASSMENT
Offensive conduct may include, but is not limited to, offensive jokes, slurs, epithets or name calling, physical assaults or threats, intimidation, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs, offensive objects or pictures, and interference with work performance.

RETALIATION
Retaliation occurs when an employer (through a manager, supervisor, administrator or directly) fires an employee or takes any other type of adverse action against an employee for engaging in protected activity.