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How Calibration Meetings Introduce Bias into Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.

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What are Microaffirmations? Inclusivity Through Small Gestures

AIHR

Microaffirmations are crucial when it comes to building a workplace culture that’s open and inclusive. Simply put, if you want to have the best employees, make the most money, and have the happiest workplace, you need to build an inclusive environment — and encouraging workers to employ microaffirmations is an easy way to help do that.

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8 Steps to Improve Employee Productivity in 2024

15Five

Hold regular performance reviews A performance review assesses employee contributions toward a company and provides them with fair and actionable feedback that supports their career development path. This helps employees understand how they impact the company, which helps drive high performance and engagement.

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6 Ways to Make Performance Reviews More Fair

Harvard Business Review

Behavioral nudges can help remove bias from your process.

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Meaningful Inclusion: Creating a Lasting DEI Program for Employee Retention

Zenefits

So, you’ve done the hard work of setting up a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program and have begun hiring employees who better represent your area’s demographics. For HR managers, recruitment is only the beginning — and even more so when you begin hiring more inclusively. What’s next? The work environment as a safe space.

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Why Companies Can — and Should — Recommit to DEI in the Wake of the SCOTUS Decision

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court ban on affirmative action at colleges and universities, state legislation attaching diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on campus, and more general attacks on DEI, companies are considering whether they need to change their DEI strategies. In the wake of the U.S. The short answer is they don’t.

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Free Small Business and HR Compliance Calendar: December 2022

Zenefits

Q4 Performance Reviews: Time for Q4 performance reviews! See how Zenefits manages performance reviews. International Day of Persons with Disabilities: International Day of Persons with Disabilities aims to promote disability rights and build an inclusive, accessible world. December 1. December 3.