Leading Through Bias - (Palgrave Executive Essentials) by Poornima Luthra & Sara Louise Muhr (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This book will address bias head on, recognising that we cannot completely eliminate bias as it is intricately woven into the way our human brain functions, but we can certainly make efforts to become more aware of our biases, work hard to block them and most importantly minimise its impact on our organisations and the people working in them.
- About the Author: Dr. Poornima Luthra is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
- 291 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Human Resources & Personnel Management
- Series Name: Palgrave Executive Essentials
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Book Synopsis
This book will address bias head on, recognising that we cannot completely eliminate bias as it is intricately woven into the way our human brain functions, but we can certainly make efforts to become more aware of our biases, work hard to block them and most importantly minimise its impact on our organisations and the people working in them. This book aims to provide leaders with the skills and tools needed to lead through this bias. The chapters of the book - Leading with conviction, Leading with clarity, Leading with accountability, Leading with allyship and Leading with strength - focus on the five essential skills needed to block bias to nurture diversity, equity and inclusion at work.
From the Back Cover
"Leading through bias is paramount. Through this book, you will learn that it requires you to lead with conviction, clarity, accountability, allyship and strength. It is not an easy ride. You will need to step up and even more leadership will be required of you when everybody comes with a different view. But what you stand to gain - the value you can create both in your people and in your business - is immense. This is important."Foreword by Mette Louise Kaagaard, CEO of Microsoft Denmark & Iceland
Bias is everywhere. While we cannot completely eliminate it, we can make efforts to become more aware of them, to work hard to block them, and to minimise the impact they have on our organisations and the people who work within them. By identifying 5 essential skills - conviction, clarity, accountability, allyship and strength - this book offers an all-in-one resource to help you explore the topics of inclusive leadership and the role ofleaders in addressing bias within a global context. Chapters are grounded in theoretical frameworks while mini-experiences and self-reflection exercises are presented throughout, making this ideal reading for leaders. Likewise, this is a comprehensive resource for executive students, particularly as it enables students to reflect on their individual and organisational journeys towards inclusion along with key features such as additional reading and practical take-aways.
Poornima Luthra, PhD (she/her) is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. An established author, Poornima has been recognised as one of the world's 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas will make an important impact on management thinking in the future by the prestigious Thinkers50.
Sara Louise Muhr, PhD (she/her) is Professor of Diversity and Leadership at Copenhagen Business School. She is also Academic Director of the CBS Leadership Centre and serves on the board of directors of Copenhagen Business School. Sara is the author of more than 80 journal articles and book chapters, as well as 10 published books, including Diversity and Identity in the Workplace: Connections and Perspectives published in 2018 by Palgrave.
About the Author
Dr. Poornima Luthra is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. She has spent the last fifteen years researching and teaching university courses in the field of talent management, with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion. Poornima's work in DEI focuses on expanding the dimensions of diversity we address with an emphasis on intersectionality, empowering individuals to be active allies of inclusion and enabling inclusive leadership. Poornima is the recipient of the Professional Women of Colour Denmark 2021 Impact award, and a finalist in the Trailblazer category of the Nordic Blaze Inclusion Awards.
Sara Louise Muhr is Professor at Copenhagen Business School. She is also Academic Director of the CBS Business in Society Platform 'Diversity and Difference' and serves on the board of directors of Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on critical perspectives on managerial identity, leadership and HRM, especially in relation to issues around coping with diversity and expectations to employees and leaders in modern, flexible ways of working. Following this broader aim, she has worked with various empirical settings such as management consultancy, prisons, the military and police force, pole dance studios and executive networks where she has engaged with issues such as power, culture, emotional labor, gender, ethnicity, migration, and work-life balance. Sara's work has materialized in several published books and has appeared in journals such as Organization Studies; Human Relations; Organization;Gender, Work and Organization; Human Resource Management Review, Culture & Organization as well as Leadership.