Is Your Company’s Diversity Training Making You More Biased?
Although diversity and inclusion training is prevalent in corporate America, its impact is inconsistent. According to the evidence, sometimes the programs even have the opposite effect of what they intend. One 2016 study of 830 mandatory diversity training programs found that they often triggered a strong backlash against the ideas they promoted. “Trainers tell us that people often respond to compulsory courses with anger and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: David Rock, Heidi Grant | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development
Beyond Bias
Neuroscience research shows how new organizational practices can shift ingrained thinking.
Content: Article | Authors: David Rock, Heidi Grant | Source: “strategy+business” | Subject: Organizational Behavior
The Secret to Effective Motivation
An interview with Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins, authors of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World to Power Success and Influence.
Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: E. Tory Higgins, Heidi Grant | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subject: Organizational Behavior
The Key to Choosing the Right Career
We all want to choose a career that will make us happy, but how can we know what that will be? Research suggests that human beings are remarkably bad at predicting how they will feel when doing something in the future. It’s not hard to find someone who started out thinking that they would love their chosen profession, only to wind up hating it. In … [ Read more ]
Content: Career Information | Author: Heidi Grant | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subject: Career Info