Question: Using the information below, write a memo to your supervisor, Mrs. Alice Johnson, with your summary of the situation and recommendations for handling this problem.

Using the information below, write a memo to your supervisor, Mrs. Alice Johnson, with your summary of the situation and recommendations for handling this problem. The memo should be in proper memo format, and should explain the problem and provide an appropriate suggested solution. (Memo formats can be found in Microsoft Word templates or you can create your own.) The typed memo should be at least 200 words.

You are partner in a large accounting firm. In your position, you supervise a number of accountant managers. After having notified all staff of their scheduled jobs for the next three months, Leslie Meadows comes to talk with you about a problem. Leslie is a manager with an outstanding record, and she has been identified as having partner potential. Working as the firm's expert in small and family-owned businesses, Leslie has a reputation for solving the problems she encounters.

Although you were curious before your meeting with Leslie, you are dismayed when the meeting ends. Leslie reports that she has been sexually harassed by the president of one of the clients with whom she has been working. She provides you with a detailed account of events. She also provides statements from two relatively new staff auditors who assert that they too have been harassed. The harassment began as occasional offensive jokes or comments and moved to sexually explicit verbal statements. By ignoring the President's comments and actions, Leslie had believed she could handle it until yesterday at a dinner meeting with the client when the client had grabbed her, kissed her, and invited her to his place as they left the restaurant.

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