How to Avoid Bias in Your Writing and Communications
Here are a few tips to help ensure your writing doesn’t come across as biased or offensive.
Posts Tagged: Bias
The Likeability Factor in Hiring
Numerous studies point to the same trend: that recruiters tend to hire the applicants with whom they have the most in common.
Building Transparency and Fairness into Public-Facing Algorithms
Algorithms are made up of someone’s opinion and experience. Therefore, we should ensure that the opinion and experience of people who will be impacted by the algorithm is captured in the design of the algorithm such that we can remove as much bias as humanly possible.
How to Manage Negativity Bias
Everyone has negativity bias. It’s deep-rooted in our brains. Use these tips to heal and foster a better sense of optimism.
5 Articles About Gender Bias in the Workplace
Five articles this month investigate what headline-grabbing cases of sexism mean for women in the workplace. They also ponder ways to correct the imbalance
Why We Make Bad Decisions in the Workplace
Everyone messes up in the workplace every once in a while. Learn how your brain can be responsible for these mistakes.
10 Biases that Will Mess With Your Mind
How have some of these biases made your workplace less inclusive?
Unconscious Bias in the Government
Government at all levels needs to recognize, address and manage the ways unconscious bias negatively influences the work culture.
In the Image of Me
We build workplaces in the image of ourselves. We tend to hire people for cultural fit. Most of time that translates into surrounding ourselves with folks who look like us, think like us, and act like us.
Resume Whitening
Hiring for cultural fit just hit a new high — or maybe a new low — when a University of Toronto study was released that indicated that 40% of people of color job candidates “whiten” their resumes by using more English sounding names and removing language that identifies them with their subordinate racial group. Here… Read more »