Action Step -Reducing Bias In Evaluations: How and Why Bias Affects Performance Reviews (Part 1)
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REDUCING BIAS IN EVALUATIONS:
HOW AND WHY BIAS AFFECTS PERFORMANCE REVIEWS (PART 1)
Most firms believe their evaluation system is fair. Most of those firms are wrong.
Research has shown that unconscious bias skews evaluations, despite the evaluators’ best efforts to be fair and impartial. A recent study even suggests the more we believe we are fair and impartial, the less likely we are actually to be so…
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