3 Strategies to Reduce Bias in Leadership Assessments

3 Strategies to Reduce Bias in Leadership Assessments

Allan Lee, Niels Van Quaquebeke, and Hannes Leroy | Harvard Business Review

"Survey-style leadership assessments promised to standardize the way leaders are evaluated in organizations. Yet survey data can still reflect and reinforce common biases. To try to correct for bias in these assessments, the authors recommend three strategies when developing survey questions: 1) Have people rate an ideal leader before rating their actual leader; 2) Require raters to give specific, qualitative examples for each rated behavior; and 3) Create friction during the evaluation to slow people down and make them aware of potential bias."

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3 Strategies to Reduce Bias in Leadership Assessments, Allan Lee, Niels Van Quaquebeke, and Hannes Leroy, Harvard Business Review, 2021