ADLP8403 · Advancing Studies

Bias in the Workplace

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Understanding bias is critical to one's ability to "rewire the system to rewire behaviors" to make sustainable change. This course will examine Implicit Bias, Gender Bias, Cognitive Biases, Affinity Bias, Confirmation Bias, etc. In addition to broad topics of bias, course will examine emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-knowledge, and empathy. The course will incorporate cases on bias in the workplace and give students practice on how to identify bias and be able to explore how that thread pulls through and can adversely affect advancement, opportunity, compensation, and other key employment aspects. The course will examine how even small biases in seemingly minor people systems can amplify exclusion over time.