Diversity and inclusion at the international committee of the red cross: eliminating unconscious bias in the recruitment process

• Autor(a) principal: Leseviciute, Goda
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104634
• topic: Diversity; Inclusion; Unconscious; Bias; Recruitmen; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The purpose of this study was to test whether unconscious bias in the recruitment process serves as a barrier to achieve diversity and inclusion in an organization. Research subject is International Committee of the Red Cross and its talent acquisition team of 12 people. Based on priorinternal evaluations, external literature and organizational examples, a research was carried out to evaluate the presence of bias, the awarenessconcerning itand the organization’s readiness to improve the state of diversity and inclusion from the perspective of recruitment bymitigating or eliminatingunconscious bias. The results were that bias are present, yet the stakeholders of the process are not sufficiently educated on the topic to be aware. On the management level, a collective agreement expresses that ithas to be addressed immediately. The value of this researchisthat it isnot limited to a type of organization and its methodology can be adapted to the public and private sector of different realities with diverse levels of complexity.