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What is Harassment

Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Situation in which is a tension caused by physical or mental violence on somebody.
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Workplace Harassment of Restaurant Workers
Silvena Dencheva Yordanova (Varna University of Management, Bulgaria) and Hannah Strachan (Varna University of Management, Bulgaria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch017
Abstract
Today all people become victims of harassment in one form or another. Harassment at work is a very hot topic nowadays as lot of women are objects during their work. The chapter is focused on presenting the essence of harassment and how it can take place in a kitchen. The first part discussed harassment and mobbing in the workplace. The methodology part presented a study conducted among women chefs and kitchen staff. The study was conducted through online questionnaire and included 39 respondents. Besides this, an interview with 13 women chefs has been performed. The study aims to understand if there is harassment in the kitchen and what forms it takes. It also aims to understand how women as chefs are perceived in their job positions and how they are harassed. The results show that women chefs have been victims of different forms of harassment in the kitchen.
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