Leaders should base recruitment and promotion decisions on objective assessment data
TRUMBULL, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#DandI–Unconscious bias could be preventing employers from hiring the best staff and improving business performance. A new report from Questionmark, the online assessment provider, argues that leaders should test the skills of workers so that they can make objective decisions on recruitment and promotion.
The new Questionmark report, �Overcoming bias and building diverse business success shows how more diverse workforces deliver better business performance. But despite the clear business imperative, leaders are struggling to master diversity and inclusion.
Three main barriers are preventing employers from nurturing a more diverse workforce:
Measuring and testing the skills of workers using online assessments can help employers make more objective and inclusive people decisions. Assessments draw attention to peoples skills and knowledge irrespective of their background. Data from assessments indicate which candidates are best for the role and which workers are ripe for promotion. This objective information can challenge bias and lead to the workforce becoming more diverse.
Lars Pedersen, CEO of Questionmark, said: Assessments help employers make more inclusive people decisions. They can detect attitudes across the existing workforce that need challenging. They reveal whether diversity training is effective.
The Questionmark Anti-discrimination for People Managers test provides a ready-made assessment to measure knowledge of discrimination law and help managers make fair and balanced decisions. It is available for the US and UK markets.
For more information download the full report: Overcoming bias and building diverse business success.
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About Questionmark
Questionmark unlocks performance through reliable and secure online assessments.
Questionmark provides a secure enterprise-grade assessment platform and professional services to leading organizations around the world, delivered with care and unequalled expertise. Its full-service online assessment tool and professional services help customers to improve their performance and meet their compliance requirements. Questionmark enables organizations to unlock their potential by delivering assessments which are valid, reliable, fair and defensible.
Questionmark offers secure powerful integration with other LMS, LRS and proctoring services making it easy to bring everything together in one place. Questionmark’s cloud-based assessment management platform offers rapid deployment, scalability for high-volume test delivery, 24/7 support, and the peace-of-mind of secure, audited U.S., Australian and European-based data centers.
Contacts
US: Kristin Bernor, external relations: Kristin.bernor@questionmark.com +1 203.349.6438
UK: James Boyd-Wallis: james.boyd-wallis@fourteenforty.uk +44 7793 021 607
Australia and New Zealand: Chelsea Dowd: chelsea.dowd@questionmark.com +61 2 8073 0527
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