06/01/2020

Study: Women Less Likely to Receive Truthful Feedback in Performance Reviews

Gender bias must be minimized

An effective performance review tells an employee a lot about where they can improve their work. If accurate, truthful feedback isn’t given, it can hurt an employee’s ability to succeed.

And for women in the workplace, that’s a significant problem, according to a new academic study.

The Cornell University study, published in the ‌Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, found that women are more likely to be told “white lies” in performance reviews in order to make the review more positive, but this does more harm than good.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.