Harassment is a recurrent theme in business literature, with perspectives, although different, converging on one aspect: this practice should be banned from organizations, and, to do this, there is a need to understand it in greater depth. Thus, this study analyzes harassment lawsuits in order to identify divergences and convergences between the sentences/lawsuits pursued by the Labor Justice, and it also analyzes discourses in the court records, as well as discourses by the victims and managers from organizations held accountable, adopting as reference some harassment categories. Unlike traditional scientific studies, which take into account the victims' perspective, this study goes beyond by also considering managers from organizations where the cases under analysis took place. The research strategy used is case study, by means of triangulation of data obtained through interviews with victims and managers and documentary analysis. With this design, the study was conducted in two complementary phases: the first mapped cases of harassment filed with Labor Justice and the second analyzed ten cases of harassment against women who have worked in large private companies. The results show significant differences in the categories between the victims and managers' perspectives. Moreover, they reveal, not only in respondents' discourses, myopia regarding the multiple causes of harassment in the labor world, but also in the elements of legal proceedings. With an emphasis on managers, the contradictions and mistakes on the theme are a matter of concern and naturalized alibis, in their expressions and speeches, try to bring the issue to the borderland, by using the tone of "joke" and euphemisms.
Business; Organizations; Harassment; Labor Justice.