Training module on diversity and inclusion types of bias edu ppt

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The slide depicts the multiple learning objectives of the “types of biases” session of the D&I training module.

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This slide covers types of biases at office space such as affinity bias, beauty bias, conformity and contrast biases, gender bias, halo and horns biases, cultural bias, confirmation bias etc. 

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This slide provides information regarding the definition of the confirmation bias that exists at the workplace

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This slide provides information regarding the existence of confirmation bias in the workplace. It also covers details of the techniques to avoid confirmation bias.

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This slide covers definition of affinity bias and the reasons how it affects the hiring process. 

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This slide covers reasons through which workplace is affected by affinity biases such as poor judgment and assumptions, which can lead to poor decision-making etc. It also includes the ways to avoid it at workplace.

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This slide covers the definition of beauty bias that exists at the workplace.

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This slide covers the reasons how beauty bias affects the recruitment process and how to control and manage it at the workplace.

Instructor's Notes:

How does Beauty Bias affect the hiring process?

• Researchers conducted an experiment where they submitted 11,000 CVs to various job vacancies, including identical CVs accompanied with candidate pictures of varying attractiveness
• Attractive women and men were far more likely to be called back for an interview than unattractive (or no-photograph) candidates

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This slide covers definition of conformity bias with some examples. It also depicts that conformity bias can cause people to follow the herd rather than using their own judgment.

Instructor's Notes:

Knowing that people around us are making ethical decisions indicates that it is the societal norm, making it more straightforward to follow suit.

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This slide covers how Conformity bias affects the hiring process and the ways to avoid conformity bias at the work place.

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This slide covers definition of contrast bias with some examples. It also depicts that people tend to exaggerate the performance of one compared to the other under contrast biases.

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This slide covers Reasons how contrast bias affect the hiring process and ways to avoid it at the workplace. 

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This slide covers definition of gender bias with some examples. It also depicts that a hiring committee favors male candidates over female candidates with very similar experience.

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This slide covers Reasons how gender bias affect the work space and ways to avoid it in hiring process.

Instructor's Notes:

Respond by claiming that family leaves benefit employees, families, and businesses. Remind them that being a good employee and a good parent are not necessarily conflicting

Ask them to be more precise, and remind them that "different" may be a cultural add

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This slide covers definition of the sexual bias with some examples. It also depicts the situation of the LGBTQ+ community at the workplace.

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This slide covers reasons how sexual bias affects the work space and what steps a leader should take to make the workplace more comfortable for LGBTQ+ employees.

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This slide covers definition of attribution bias with some examples. It also depicts that in attribution bias, a person tries to evaluate or tries to understand another person’s behavior.

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This slide covers Reasons how attribution bias affect the workplace and ways to avoid it in hiring process.

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This slide covers the definition of halo effect biases with some examples. It also depicts that the halo effect is the tendency for people to praise another person after finding something good about them.

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This slide covers the reasons how halo bias affects the workplace and ways to avoid it in recruitment process.

Instructor's Notes:

2019 College Admissions Scandal

Federal prosecutors alleged a college-admission scheme that involved:

• Bribing exam administrators in order to allow cheating on college and university admission exams
• Bribing top university coaches and officials to designate unworthy candidates as elite recruited athletes, thereby easing the applicants’ admission
• Using a nonprofit organization to hide the source and nature of bribery payments

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The definition of horns effect biases with some examples. It also depicts that the horns effect is the people's perception when they hear something unfavorable about others.

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This slide covers reasons how horns bias affects the workplace and ways to avoid it in the recruitment process.

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This slide covers the definition of cultural biases with some examples. It also depicts that the cultural biases in the hiring process may lead to less racial or cultural diversity in the workplace.

Instructor's Notes:

Some examples of cultural influences that may lead to bias include:

• Linguistic interpretation
• Ethical concepts of right and wrong
• Understanding of facts or evidence-based proof
• Religious beliefs or understanding
• Sexual attraction

Illustration explanation:

• Left Illustration: An individual from Germany is feeling insecure in the company of two individuals from the USA.
• Center Illustration: Since all three individuals are from the same county i.e., Japan, the individual is happy with his/her team members.
• Right Illustration: The individual from South Sudan is feeling intimidate in the company from the individual from the USA.

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This slide covers Reasons how cultural bias affects the workplace and ways to avoid it in recruitment process.

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This slide depicts the summary of the for types of biases session.

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This slide indicates the sheet to track the multiple biases that a person has faced in their work or personal life. It can be used by the trainer to conduct individual level activity in the diversity and inclusion training session.