{"id":506,"date":"2011-12-06T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brashconsulting.com.au\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:31:00","slug":"506-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brashconsulting.com.au\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps not coincidentally, I have been doing a lot of EEO training in the past few weeks. In some cases, clients and I did this work one or two years ago and they wanted an organisation-wide refresher. In other cases, they want to promote awareness in the wake of recent events or in anticipation of end of year functions. <\/o:p><\/span> <\/span>
Working with one client group this week a participant made a comment about the “inevitability” of poor behaviour at Christmas parties where clients supply alcohol at an open bar. “After all”, this participant argued strenuously, “after 5 hours of free booze, how would<\/em> you expect someone to behave?! But I wouldn’t want to create any scandal or anything… so I think we should just confiscate mobile phones and cameras at the door.”<\/o:p><\/span>
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I suppose I should have been relieved he was at least thinking about his ‘digital reputation’ and the company brand, even if not about his role in enhancing or tarnishing it.<\/o:p><\/span>
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If we accept his premise that the company provides the alcohol, so of course we can abuse it, let’s take this to the nth degree.<\/o:p><\/span>
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What would follow is, if the company provides a mixed gender workforce, every straight person working there will (eventually) end up sexually harass someone. <\/o:p><\/span>
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If we work in a multicultural workforce, then surely racial harassment will be par for the course.<\/o:p><\/span>
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If we give our people access to the internet, then the boss we don’t like or holds us accountable, will undoubtedly be fair game for social media abuses. <\/o:p><\/span>
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And imagine if we were butchers and the company gives us knives, then we’re surely gonna cut someone!<\/o:p><\/span>
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Where does employer responsibility end and self- responsibility kick in? And for the employee who cannot find any self-control and can’t ever stop at a few drinks, then both the employee and the company have more to concern themselves with than just a Christmas function. <\/o:p><\/span>
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Perhaps not coincidentally, I have been doing a lot of EEO training in the past few weeks. In some cases, clients and I did this work one or two years ago and they wanted an organisation-wide refresher. In other cases, they want to promote awareness in the wake of recent events or in anticipation of end of year functions. Working … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,60,46,28,43,50,84,80,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-internet-use","category-equal-opportunity","category-ethics","category-feedback-culture","category-misconduct","category-moments-of-truth","category-morality","category-self-responsibility","category-sexual-harassment","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t