Beyond Zero Tolerance: Effective Harassment Prevention for Globalised Organisations
This episode of Translocating Inclusion features Dr. Enya Doyle to examine why zero-tolerance policies and standardized compliance frameworks often fall short in preventing workplace harassment, especially in multinational contexts. Using Enya’s experience supporting organization with harassment prevention, we will offer practical, intersectional strategies for building accountability-driven cultures where inclusion and safety are the norm.
Practitioners who are intimately engaged in managing any organisation’s bullying and harassment policy will readily admit that strategies such as zero-tolerance policies and any compliance frameworks that rely on “tried and true” processes don’t often make for effective prevention. This is further complicated by the fact that we exist in a globalised landscape where not only are employees within any given organisation from different places around the globe, with different cultural norms and even legal frameworks for harassment, but multinational organisations often have footprints across cultural and legislative boundaries.
Given these realities and so many more points of complication, what should effective harassment prevention in the workplace look like?
In this episode of Translocating Inclusion, Gardy Guiteau is joined by Dr Enya Doyle (she/her), The Harassment Doctor™, to explore the limits of generic harassment prevention strategies in multinational organisations. Together, they will unpack how language, cultural norms, legal definitions, and generational expectations complicate global policy implementation, and why the myth of a universal approach to harassment must be challenged.
Drawing on Enya’s research on barriers to gender equity, the conversation will offer strategic, humane, and globally relevant ways to build accountability-driven cultures where harassment is neither misunderstood nor ignored. At its core, this episode explores why organisations that take intersectionality seriously are better equipped to create truly safe environments for all.