Nike, one of the world's most valuable brands, enjoys a stellar reputation for its products and image, but its reputation as a company has been tainted by widespread sexual harassment allegations within the company. This activity is important because understanding a major sexual harassment problem at a large company requires considering the many factors that may have caused it to develop over a long period of time.

The goal of this activity is for you to trace various issues that may have led to the prevalence of sexual harassment and discrimination at Nike, as well as to evaluate possible remedies.

Read about sexual harassment at Nike. Then, using the three$-$step problem$-$solving approach, answer the questions that follow.

Business events that move to strip clubs, emails in your own inbox about parts of your body, lewd and vulgar comments, and more commonly but similarly troubling$-$unfair pay and promotion practices; these are a subset of complaints revealed in a survey conducted by female employees at Nike. The findings Illustrated systematic sexual harassment and discrimination.

Supporting these claims are a long history of complaints to HR and leaders within the company about inappropriate behavior by a number of male leaders. Women comprise nearly $50$ percent of the company's workforce but occupy only $38$ percent of management level and $29$ percent of vice president positions. $1$

Female employees shared these results with CEO Mark Parker in an effort not only to improve the situation for women at Nike, but also to improve Nike. Their efforts provide yet another example of how employees are organizing and wielding