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  • 1.  Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-07-2020 06:36
    Hi. Can anyone suggest some class exercises and/or short cases for the following topic for MBA students? Recognizing explicit and implicit bias. 
    Best, Payal


    With regards,

    Prof. Payal Kumar 

    Professor & Chair (OB/HR), 

    & Associate Dean - International Affairs 

    BML Munjal University, India

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/payalk1/


     








  • 2.  RE: Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-08-2020 10:28
    The Gorilla selective attention test is fun to use.  This is based on experiments by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.
    Here's the Youtube link:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

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  • 3.  RE: Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-08-2020 10:28
    Hi Payal
    A search of The Case Centre database at www.thecasecentre,org returns 164 cases under the heading of 'identifying bias'.  My colleague Lucy Baldwin will be in touch to assist you in refining the search further for the best results.

    best wishes
    Richard



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  • 4.  RE: Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-08-2020 10:28
    Sometimes with MBA students, I ask them to find their own case studies among the many video clips available regarding corporate behavior, such as this one: https://youtu.be/IwPSDMUtNmk. If they can pose questions about the explicit and implicit behaviors shown by Union Carbide in Bhopal and perhaps the government, then they are well on their way to understanding reality and being able to lead a class discussion. For example, did Union Carbide chose to put a dangerous chemical plant in an area/nation where it had a low risk of being exposed for misdeeds? Should the government have imposed better safety standards? If not, why not? There were Harvard cases about the incident decades ago. Another Indian, international example would be the opium wars. I am sure the students could be creative with a variety of social issues.

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  • 5.  RE: Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-08-2020 16:16
     Last week I finished a new book, Humanocracy, coauthored by Gary Hamel. You may want to use the Bureaucracy Mass Index at the end of the referenced article (about the book) as a class exercise  https://hbr.org/2017/05/assessment-do-you-know-how-bureaucratic-your-organization-is.  Once the students complete the exercise, they could be broken into groups to develop actions to overcome the limitations of bureaucracy.

    Frank Shipper
    Co-author of Shared Entrepreneurship: A Path to Engaged Employee Ownership
    Regents' Research Award Winner

    Professor Emeritus of Management
    Perdue School of Business
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  • 6.  RE: Class exercises for recognizing bias

    Posted 10-11-2020 13:27
    Thanks for these great suggestions.
    Payal

    With regards,

    Prof. Payal Kumar 

    Professor & Chair (OB/HR), 

    & Associate Dean - International Affairs 

    BML Munjal University, India

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/payalk1/


     









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