It’s December so let’s issue a press release about the pros and cons of Christmas parties. That seems to be the mantra of the PR people in a number of organisations.
We’ve just had surveys from the CIPD and the CMI on the subject, now it’s the turn of the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).
It says that its survey reveals that ‘almost two-thirds of managers consider staff Christmas parties a behavioural minefield while one-third don’t enjoy them at all.’ Wow, hold the front page!
The ILM also say that 61 per cent of managers think that company Christmas parties are a behavioural minefield, with one in five knowing someone who has been disciplined or fired thanks to over enthusiastic ‘festive frolics’.
More sobering are findings that reinforce the view that UK management is poor.
Twenty per cent of managers said that they had been inappropriately drunk at a Christmas party, with one in ten admitting to having ‘canoodled’ with a co-worker.
Only 31 per cent of respondents said that they had changed their behaviour at work Christmas parties since being promoted to a management position. So much for leading by example…
www.i-l-m.com
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