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RIL Workshop Offering: Working Together with an Awareness of Bias: Understanding, Discussing, and Reducing Bias

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Unconscious thought patterns influence our decisions, including those we make at work. In this short workshop, you’ll learn how bias arises and develop strategies to counteract it. No prior knowledge is required.

“Bias” refers to the range of common errors that occur when processing information and evaluating other people. These effects can lead to poor decision-making and discrimination against groups or individuals. In the workplace, bias can have undesirable consequences, such as in hiring, collaboration, or career development. That is why it is important that we recognize, discuss, and counteract bias. In this short workshop, you will receive an introduction to the underlying mechanisms. We will focus in particular on how stereotypes, prejudices, and certain group dynamics work. We will then discuss strategies for identifying, reflecting on, and reducing implicit bias and its effects. No prior knowledge is required.

Target Audience:

This workshop is particularly suitable for individuals who serve as change agents and work at the intersection of academia and public administration.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Participants will become familiar with the concept of “bias.”
  • Participants will be able to assess the potential effects of bias in their organizational context.
  • Participants will learn strategies for addressing and reducing their own bias.

Methods: Presentation with interactive elements, discussion, partner and group work

Location:

Seminar Building 1 / Room 2.029, Friedrich-Wöhler-Weg 6; accessible entry is guaranteed.

Presenters: Katharina Zilles & Nadine Finke-Micheel

Registration for TU Dortmund University employees via the Internal further Training and continuing Education Office

Registration for RUB employees via email to nadine.finke@tu-dortmund.de