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Self-profiling test
1. Conscious biases are much more common than unconscious biases.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
2. Affinity Bias is the tendency to evaluate people who come from the same “group” more favourably
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
3. We are able to control the mechanism by which our brain creates unconscious biases.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
4. The human brain tends to simplify things.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
5. Asking for feedback from trusted colleagues might help recognise unconscious bias.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
6. Every person is not completely free from unconscious biases.
A. TRUE.
B. FALSE.
7. Why is cultural bias bad?
A. There isn't anything negative about cultural bias.
B. Cultural bias makes the recruiting process long and exhausting.
C. Cultural bias is limiting your candidate selection during the hiring process especially for migrants and leading to a workplace lacking in diversity.
D. Cultural bias leads to a very fast recruitment process and decisions that have been taken too quickly may have a negative impact on the business.
8. What is unconscious bias in recrutiment?
A. Prejudice and discriminatory hiring decisions in favour or against one person or a group of people;.
B. When you form an opinion about candidates based solely on first impression;.
C. It causes us to judge candidates on our perceived ideas of them instead of their skills and experience.
D. All options are correct.
9. Why can it be hard to recognize unconscious biases in your organisation?
A. Because you don’t have any biases.
B. It happens at a partially unconscious level.
C. You feel too embarrassed to open up about your biases.
D. This is not something that can be recognized or measured in any way.
10. Why is it important to understand our unconscious biases?
A. To speed up the hiring process.
B. To improve our digital skills.
C. Today biases and discrimination are more subtle and therefore harder to understand.
D. We don’t have to identify our biases because they are unconscious.
11. What are the advantages of Blind Hiring?
A. It’s good to be random when picking a candidate.
B. Helps one to not be influenced by gender, age, or other factors.
C. Randomness increases productivity.
D. It is more efficient.
12. Which of the following js a way to avoid unconscious bias?
A. We need to be as quick as possible when making a decision.
B. Unconscious biases are beyond our control.
C. Using the right language.
D. Relying on one’s instinct.
13. What should you do if you have a worker with an academic degree from another country?
A. Ignore the person's CV as his or her university degree is not the same as that of other colleagues.
B. Translate it with an automatic translator to find out what it says.
C. Hire a sworn translator to translate it and assess its validity.
D. None of the above.
14. If a worker does not speak the language sufficiently well...
A. It is better not to hire him/her.
B. The company can offer or advise language courses so that he/she feels integrated and there is more trust between the worker and the rest of the workers.
C. It can be overlooked.
D. The employee can be offered a lower salary than the rest of the workers.
15. An example of a social group that suffers prejudice at work is…
A. Those who belong to a lower social status.
B. Middle class people.
C. Men.
D. None of the above.
16. There are social groups that suffer more discrimination and are therefore more prejudiced against than others.
A. True.
B. False.
17. In order to manage stereotypes we can:
A. Ignore peers who are from a different cultural background.
B. Talk to all colleagues openly.
C. Assume that we all think alike and that there are no differing opinions.
D. Do nothing.
18. Objectivity and fairness at work serves to:
A. Avoid having bad thoughts caused by stereotypes and be as fair as possible.
B. Absolutely nothing.
C. Favouring discriminated persons.
D. Favouring discriminatory groups.
19. Which of the following can contribute to lowering unconscious bias?
A. Fostering the thought that foreigners are “strange”.
B. Looking for occasions to meet up with culturally diverse people.
C. Interacting only with people one feels comfortable with.
D. Avoiding any type of contact.
20. What is the function of stereotyping?
A. It is a brain’s working mode to structure the world.
B. It is a character trait.
C. It is an inborn human characteristic.
D. Helpful way of rational thinking.
21. What should organisations do when starting to work on unconscious bias?
A. Identify colleagues subject to bias.
B. Ridicule situations where unconscious bias shows.
C. Provide information about unconscious bias.
D. Try not to see unconscious bias in the organisation.
22. What role does the “written form” have in preventing bias?
A. The written form reduces the number of readers.
B. The written form enhances traceability.
C. The written form is more difficult to understand.
D. The written form last through time.
23. To which positive effect on the personnel structure may the reduction of (cultural) unconscious bias contribute?
A. More personnel fluctuation.
B. More multicultural personnel.
C. More homogeneous personnel.
D. More partial personnel.
24. In which way may multicultural personnel contribute beneficially to better problem solutions?
A. By bringing in a smaller range of approaches.
B. By better avoiding conflicts.
C. By asking colleagues to comment on the processes.
D. By bringing in a wider range of approaches.
Please select your answer!
Your results
Module 1
What is unconscious bias
Open
Understand how unconscious biases are created
Open
Recognising your own unconscious bias
Open
Module 2
Unconscious Bias in Recruitment
Open
How to identify unconscious bias
Open
How to avoid unconscious bias in the recruitment processes
Open
Module 3
The impact of unconscious bias in the workplace
Open
How to identify unconscious bias at the workplace
Open
Managing and dealing with unconscious bias at the workplace
Open
Module 4
Cultural unconscious bias at individual level
Open
Cultural unconscious bias at organizational level
Open
Benefits of reducing unconscious bias
Open
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