This study examined the relationship between behaviour and habit factor, passive leadership factor, and hostility factor and to determine the strongest factors of sexual harassment in restaurant industry among employee. More than 100 sets of questionnaires were prepared and distributed to the targeted respondents that currently working or did not that has an experience in the hospitality industry. After that, the SPSS software was used to examine those data which were gathered and also to generate the final result. The result shows that there are correlations between sexual harassment of the employees in the hospitality industry and with other three independent variables (behaviour and habit factor, passive leadership factor, and hostility factor). The findings, limitations of the study, implications of the study and recommendations of this study will be discussed.
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To Cite this Article: Kamaruddin, M. S. Y., Nordin, M. N. H., Abekan, A. F. binti, Mortadza, F. H. M., & Suhaimi, M. Z. (2022). Factors Contribute Sexual Harassment among Male Employees in Hospitality Industry. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(11), 953– 961.
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