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Employees who have experienced sexual harassment are unwilling to disclose it, making it a persistent problem. The current study finds that sexual harassment significantly affects employee deviant behaviour in the workplace and job satisfaction. It also finds that psychological capital has a moderating effect on sexual harassment and that organisational shame mediates its effects. Since respondents have restricted access to the data, it is expected that different samples of respondents may yield different results when using convenience sampling in conjunction with affective event theory. Information was gathered from 230 middle management staff members of an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based bank. The examination of "partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM)" yielded data that showed the impact of sexual harassment on both job satisfaction and performance. The results also offered a noteworthy theoretical understanding: organisational shame and employee deviant behaviour at work serve as better mediators of the relationship between sexual harassment and job performance and satisfaction, while psychological capital plays a less significant moderating role in these relationships. The study offers implications for theory and practice as well as prospective directions for further research.