Event Details

In the blink of an eye judgments are made about candidates and colleagues. Cognitive science reveals clearly the invisible but insidious impacts automatic social judgments have on housing, criminal sentencing, children's playgroup, and employment decisions. This workshop explores the evidence on the power of implicit or "hidden" bias and presents strategies to improve awareness of and interrupt bias in employment decision making.  

Meeting Agenda:

                                7:30 am                Registration, Networking, and Breakfast

                                8:00 am                SHRA Business, Legal Update, Community Spotlight, Sponsor

                                8:30 am                Program

                                10:00 am              Meeting Adjourns and Networking

Hiding in plain sight: How implicit biases hinder inclusion in selection and promotion strategies

Participants attending this presentation should complete at least one "Implicit Association Test" in a category of their choosing (race, mental health, weight, gender, color, etc.) and screen capture or otherwise document their results and then send them to lbrady@anselm.edu, the instructor of this workshop by April 9^th. All participants results will be anonymously combined with other participants and the results will be used in our workshop.  I will maintain the confidentiality of your individual results, this exercise is simply to allow us to learn effectively as a group about the challenge of hidden bias. The task takes about 10 minutes, though if you complete study registration it will take a few minutes more. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.jsp

Participants in this session:

1)   Understand the concept of implicit bias and the ways it influences social judgments.

2)   Identify events and conditioning that inform implicit biases, prototype biases, and affinity biases

3)   Appreciate ways implicit biases impact recruitment, selection, and retention practices.

4)   Develop tools to counter implicit bias in oneself, and to educate others.

 Presenter Biography:

Loretta L.C. Brady, Ph.D., APA-CP is a professor of psychology at Saint Anselm College and the founder of BDS Insight, a culture, crisis, and conflict management consulting firm. She is a past Fulbright Fellow and columnist on diversity and Inclusion for New Hampshire Business Review. Her research on adult development, trauma informed service delivery, and serving marginalized populations has been published and presented internationally.

OUR COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT:

New Generation provides shelter and guidance for pregnant and parenting homeless women and their infants regardless of race, religion, marital status, disability, or economic status.

OUR SPONSOR:

Checkmate is a provider of a unified cloud based workforce management platform and comprehensive payroll and payroll tax filing services, with a strong focus on customer service and efficient technology solutions. We help employers to become better able to achieve their mission by eliminating the administrative, payroll related burden of compliance and enhancing the strategic role of HR within the organization.

Working with more than 500 employers throughout the United States in 2014, Checkmate paid nearly 20,000 employees and managed the processing of over $500 million in client payroll and payroll tax funds. 

Checkmate is a service company with a focus on customizing solutions to meet the unique workforce management and payroll needs of each client. Our business is about establishing and maintaining a strong, productive and value-added relationship with each client. Our technology and service offerings are our means to achieving this goal.