When performance trumps gender bias
Subtitle: joint versus separate evaluation
By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandrea van Geen, Max H. Bazerman
Contributors: Van Geen, Alexandra; Bazerman, Max H.; Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 12-083; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 12-083.
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Description: We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of thinking that are activated under certain conditions.
Notes: "March 2012" -- Publisher's website.

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