While the cognitive interest in the last three decades focused mainly on the violent forms of sexual behaviour (especially sexual harassment at the work place, rapes), the non-violent (concordant) sexual behaviour became an interesting topic for researchers only in the 1990s. The invisibility of the phenomenon in sociology is due to understanding organisation as rational (bureaucratic), cleaned of several "irrational" components, among them sexual dimension of human relationships. Despite the relatively weak knowledge on the topic, there exists some (minimal) knowledge on sexual behaviour at the work place that should be taken into account as a basis for further research (and possible measures). The aim of the article is to present some research results, taking into account the following viewpoints: the level of 'sexualisation' of organisation culture according to the type of activity; policy regarding sexual behaviour according to the type of hierarchical structure of organisation and according to the prevailing organisation culture (the 'micro-climate' with the included sexual stereotyping); unequal evaluation of sexual behaviour according to the important determinants of the individual's position - sex, social strata, race; inclusion of various sorts of sexual orientation into the strategies of effective functioning of the organisation.
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