39.9 Definitions
39.9.1 Employees
Employees, Fellows, External Researchers, and Personnel from Staff Agencies.
39.9.2 Bullying
Bullying is any ongoing antisocial or unreasonable actions that offends, degrades, intimidates, or humiliates a reasonable person, and has the potential to create a risk to health, safety, or wellbeing.
39.9.3 Harassment
Harassment involves repeated antisocial or irrational behavior, such as humiliation, threats, or insults that violates the personality and dignity of employees, students, uses of OIST facilities and institutions, and related business vendors, which causes mental suffering, worsening the person’s working or studying environment, or creates anxiety. Such inappropriate behaviors, for example, the abuse of supervisory authority or other abuses of organizational or academic power relationships, are not limited to those by supervisors, but can also occur between colleagues, students, or from lower-level employees to higher-level employees. It can also occur outside of the usual working or studying place.
39.9.4 Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment is harassment of a sexual nature, whether between individuals of the same or different sexes. The misuse of power in a manner that has sexual overtones, offending or causing discomfort or disadvantage to employees or students, or creating a poor working or studying environment by using obscene language or conduct (including e-mail or other media) against their will, or by using language or conduct based on prejudice regarding stereotypical gender roles or gender identity.
39.9.5 Academic Harassment
Academic Harassment is the misuse of power or authority by an employee, faculty member or equivalent, or student towards another individuals in a research or educational setting, causing significant disadvantage in education or research, or any behavior that harms the educational or research environment, through inappropriate language, behavior, or discriminatory treatment.
39.9.6 Power Harassment
Power Harassment is the misuse of authority, status, or hierarchy by an employee or faculty member towards another individual, beyond the appropriate scope of duties, education, or research by engaging in antisocial or irrational behavior such as offending, degrading, intimidating, or humiliating a person, thereby threatening the health, safety, or wellbeing of the individual.
39.9.7 Harrasement related to Pregnancy, Childbirth, Childcare, or Nursing Care
This refers to inappropriate language or behavior related to pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, or nursing care that worsens the working or studying environment for female employees and students who have become pregnant or given birth, or for male and female employees and students who have applied for or obtained childcare or nursing care leave, etc.
39.9.8 Sexual Violence
Sexual violence refers to performing or forcing someone to perform sexual intercourse or indecent acts by using assault or threats, or by taking advantage of such positions as employment or school status, or where it it difficult for the person to form or express a will of non-consent.