The EU currently counts around 10 million managers who make millions of decisions every day, affecting the sustainability of our economy, society, and environment. Millions of decisions are made daily concerning employees on, for instance, recruitment, appointments, regulations, and dismissals. All decisions are made with careful consideration in the interest of the company, the context, and the task at hand.
However, no matter how careful, no matter how objective we try to be, a decision is almost always influenced by matters that it is difficult to be aware of. All people have biases, and biases of all kinds are part of our unconsciousness. Unconscious bias is part of the decision-making process. The question is what we know of the influence of unconscious bias on gender equality, on discrimination on age, sexual orientation, religion, race etc.? How is it possible to learn to be aware of our unconscious bias and create a set of tools relevant for the managerial workforce of Europe to the benefit of the decision-making process and a European labour market closer to the goals of the ESG’s.
CEC European Managers are the voice of European managers and leaders. Co-funded by the European Commission, it has initiated the Project BEYUNBI : BEYond UNconscious BIas and is being supported also by FECER, one of its sectoral member organisations.
In this context, FECER vice president Thomas H A Schneider has attended the first of a series of training seminars across Europe and has produced the following report, aiming at raising awareness for the issue of unconscious bias and fostering inclusiveness among European leaders. Later FECER president Anne Laszlo attended in Paris with three members of her TU CFE Énergies an other BEYUNBI seminar. FECER will be present at the final presentation in Brussels, at the end of november.
Read the detailed report by Thomas SCHNEIDER (in German) published in the magazine ‘Perspektiven’, DFK, on pages 30-31: https://264567.seu2.cleverreach.com/c/99604043/67bd68683b19-slelqq