What are the different ways that unconscious bias can manifest itself in the workplace?
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Unconscious bias can manifest itself in the workplace in a variety of ways. Unfair or prejudiced decisions can be made without anyone realizing it, based on racial or gender-based stereotypes, for example. Unconscious bias may also lead to biased decisions based on past experiences or implicit assumptions about different groups of people. It can also take the form of subtle discrimination, such as excluding individuals from certain activities or not recognizing their contributions. Moreover, unconscious bias may affect evaluations and feedback, leading to inaccurate assessments of employee performance.
assistant
What are the different ways that unconscious bias can manifest itself in the workplace?
user
Unconscious bias in the workplace can manifest itself in numerous ways. It could show up as a tendency to make decisions that favor certain groups or individuals over others. Decisions may be made for reasons having to do with tradition, convenience or even prejudice, rather than based on job requirements or needs. Unfair preferences and stereotypes, whether explicit or implicit, can lead to unequal opportunities for promotion and recruitment and unequal access to resources. Unconscious bias can also lead people to discount the knowledge and experiences of certain groups and overvalue those of others. It can result in tokenism, microaggressionand unconscious exclusion of some groups from conversations or decision-making processes. Moreover, it may also result in unfair evaluation standards where people are judged by different standards based on their identity.
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7-28-2021 
12:47 PM
assistant
What are the different ways that unconscious bias can manifest itself in the workplace?