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Diverseo is the exclusive business partner of the developers of the IAT, Project Implicit
A new kind of organization
The first
approach* based on research in "mind sciences" to reduce the impact of unconscious bias in HR decisions
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leverage a more diverse pool of talents to improve business performance
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Many companies have invested significant resources to increase the diversity of their human resources. A growing number of them are able to overcome structural barriers and change their recruiting processes, career management systems, or work organization. However, only very few have registered results in effectively evolving behaviors. The vast majority failed in reducing unconscious biases.
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Unconscious biases have a major impact on performance evaluation and capacity for interaction, reducing the impact of progress made elsewhere. Research show biases not only reduce a company's ability to leverage a large talent pool, but also actually reduce performance of diverse profiles by an average of 20%. Reducing the impact of biases thus represents a high, largely untapped, performance potential for a large majority of corporations.
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Diverseo has partnered with Project Implicit, an international research organization founded by eminent scientists from the University of Washington, Harvard University and University of Virginia. One of their goals is to understand how biases in one’s own attitudes and beliefs play on perceptions of self and others and how to reduce their impact.
In 1998, they created an online test, the IAT. Because the IAT is unique in providing a direct and palpable experience of bias, the IAT can be a useful tool to instigate the process of change. In fact, one study has shown that those who took the race bias IAT in the context of the judgment of a Black man did reduce their race bias as observed on a subsequent decision about him. To take the IAT and learn more about implicit associations:
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