TIMELINE
The project will conduct an empirical EU-wide survey to investigate managers’ awareness of unconscious bias and its impact on their professional behaviour and conscious leadership practices. The survey will provide important insights on improving decision-making in EU management.
On the basis of the results of the survey, a pilot hybrid training scheme will be developed for a selected group of managers. The training modules will include clear examples of “positive actions”, best practices adopted at national or company level and innovative training methods.
A series of communication and dissemination activities, including a final hybrid conference to present the results of the project and share the experiences of trainees and a project website will be launched.
PROJECT PARTNERS
These project partners, together with their research partners and consulting partners make Beyunbi possible
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Why
The EU currently counts around 10 million managers who make millions of decisions every day, affecting the sustainability of our economy, society, and environment. Whether organisational development, investments, recruitments, regulations, or dismissals – leaders’ decisions have far-reaching consequences. While competent management will carefully consider the needs of the organisation and its wider environment, decisions are always influenced by unconscious processes. All people have biases, and biases of all kinds are part of our unconsciousness.
Against that background, CEC European Managers highlights the importance of enhancing the quality of decision-making processes in leadership. With its new 18-month EU Project “Beyond Unconscious Bias: empowering inclusiveness in European leadership” (BEYUNBI), CEC will study the prevalence of unconscious bias among managers in the EU and develop an EU pilot training scheme on unconscious biases and ways of moving beyond it. How can we learn to be aware of our unconscious biases and which kind of guidance can help us in benefitting decision making, particularly within the European labour market and for delivering on the SDGs?
Project Funding
