Anti-Harassment Training Jeopardy

A respectful-workplace refresher covering harassment definitions, bystander options, reporting, and retaliation. Free to copy, played on a TV with phone buzzers.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Defining Harassment

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Conditioning a job benefit on submission to sexual advances is this type of harassment, from Latin for this for that.
What is quid pro quo?
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This legal term describes a workplace where harassment is severe or pervasive enough to alter the conditions of employment.
What is a hostile work environment?
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Title VII generally applies to employers with at least this many employees.
What is 15?
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The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects workers who are at least this age.
What is 40?
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In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986), the Supreme Court first held that this kind of workplace harassment violates Title VII.
What is sexual harassment?

Intent Versus Impact

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These everyday slights or remarks, often unintended, communicate bias toward someone because of the group they belong to.
What are microaggressions?
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Saying a remark was only this does not excuse it if the effect on coworkers was demeaning.
What is a joke?
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When told a comment landed badly, the best first response is usually to offer this rather than defend your intentions.
What is an apology?
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Courts judge whether a workplace is hostile from the viewpoint of this hypothetical person in the target's position.
What is the reasonable person?
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This term describes attitudes and stereotypes that shape behavior without a person's conscious awareness.
What is implicit bias?

Bystander Intervention

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Interrupting a harasser by asking an unrelated question or spilling a drink is this D of bystander intervention.
What is distract?
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Asking a manager or HR to step in, rather than acting yourself, is this D of bystander intervention.
What is delegate?
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Checking in with the targeted person after the incident has passed is this D of bystander intervention.
What is delay?
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Part of the bystander effect, this is when each witness assumes someone else will act.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
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The 1964 murder of this New York woman, whose neighbors reportedly failed to help, spurred research on why bystanders do not act.
Who was Kitty Genovese?

How to Report

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Most employers let employees report harassment to their supervisor or to this department.
What is Human Resources?
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Writing down dates, times, witnesses and exactly what was said creates this, which helps any investigation.
What is documentation?
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Many companies offer this kind of phone or web line, often run by an outside vendor, for raising concerns.
What is a hotline?
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Most policies let you skip over this person in the reporting chain if they are the one harassing you.
Who is your manager?
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Most discrimination charges must be filed with the EEOC within this many days, extended to 300 in many states.
What is 180?

Retaliation Is Prohibited

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Retaliation protections cover the person who complains and also these people who take part in an investigation.
Who are witnesses?
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A complaint made in this, an honest belief, is protected even if the claim is never proven.
What is good faith?
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Filing a complaint or opposing discrimination is known by this term for conduct the law shields from reprisal.
What is protected activity?
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In Thompson v. North American Stainless (2011), the Court let a worker sue after he was fired over a charge filed by this person.
Who is his fiancée?
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Firing, demoting or cutting the hours of someone because they reported harassment are examples of this legal term.
What is an adverse employment action?

Respect Every Day

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This rule, found in many traditions, says to treat others as you would want to be treated.
What is the Golden Rule?
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Using a coworker's correct name and these, such as she, he or they, is a basic courtesy.
What are pronouns?
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Talking over people in meetings is an example of this, a word for low-intensity rude behavior.
What is incivility?
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Harvard professor Amy Edmondson popularized this term for a team climate where people feel safe to speak up and take risks.
What is psychological safety?
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This term describes actively supporting and advocating for colleagues from groups you do not belong to.
What is allyship?

Final Jeopardy — Employment Law

Title VII of this landmark federal law prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

How to run this board

This board reviews the ground every respectful-workplace program covers: what harassment is and is not, the difference between intent and impact, how bystanders can step in, where to report, why retaliation is prohibited, and the everyday behaviors that build a respectful team.

It is meant to reinforce your organization's formal anti-harassment training and policy, not replace either. Where the law or your policy sets a specific requirement, the policy wins, so edit the reporting clues to name your own channels and contacts.

Keep the tone light but not flippant. Play in mixed teams rather than by department, and give managers a moment after the reporting and retaliation columns to say, in their own words, how they will respond when someone comes to them.

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