May 10, 2010
Suitable outrage from the Daily Mail after it reported on ambulance service bosses spending £10,000 [of OUR money] on a staff questionnaire which asked them to rate how 'cool' Hitler was.
The survey is part of a project to find out what makes a good boss and asked employees to rate how 'cool' different leaders were including Sir Richard Branson, Gordon Brown, Adolf Hitler, Fabio Cappello and the trust's chief executive Ian Cummings.
Some staff have - quite sensibly - pointed out that perhaps the money might have been better spent on, you know, boring stuff like training or equipment.
The ambulance trust defended the year-long study, saying: "Staff were asked to look at different leadership styles and one of those was a dictatorial style. Adolf Hitler's style galvanised a country into terrible things but it did galvanise a country. Perhaps in hindsight a better example could have been used."
You don't say.
The survey is part of a project to find out what makes a good boss and asked employees to rate how 'cool' different leaders were including Sir Richard Branson, Gordon Brown, Adolf Hitler, Fabio Cappello and the trust's chief executive Ian Cummings.
Some staff have - quite sensibly - pointed out that perhaps the money might have been better spent on, you know, boring stuff like training or equipment.
The ambulance trust defended the year-long study, saying: "Staff were asked to look at different leadership styles and one of those was a dictatorial style. Adolf Hitler's style galvanised a country into terrible things but it did galvanise a country. Perhaps in hindsight a better example could have been used."
You don't say.
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