Make Work Fair - An evening with Siri Chilazi and Iris Bohnet
On March 12th our Managing Director, Katryn Wright, hosted the UK book launch of Make Work Fair at MoreThanNow’s offices in London. The authors, Siri Chilazi and Iris Bohnet shared the latest evidence on how to design better, fairer workplaces.
“We’re on a mission to help companies improve their evidence-base on fairness. As behavioural scientists, we’re doing that with a scientific approach and experimental evaluation.”
“We need to approach fairness in the same way we run our core business. And what are those ways? Incentives, accountability, data and clear objectives. ”
We were also proud to bring Anastacia Awad, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion from Novartis R&D and Karin Kindstrand Lyckemalm, Global I&D Partner from AstraZeneca onto the stage to outline how they’re incorporating this thinking at their organisations. Both companies are long-term partners to MoreThanNow and are at the vanguard of how scientific practices are being used to drive change.
“At Novartis, research and testing our hypotheses is at the core of our work. So it’s natural for us to bring the same rigor and scientific standards to DEI. Our leaders are used to talking the language of experimentation and evidence, and that’s setting us up to drive real impact for our people.”
“Our Inclusive Hiring Lab with MoreThanNow is a systematic way to explore our recruitment process at AstraZeneca - that means redesigning three moments that matter and measuring the effect with randomised controlled experiments.”
While it’s true that Life Sciences organisations like AstraZeneca and Novartis are a natural home for this scientific way of thinking, we were also pleased to share our work with Ericsson on Focused Diversity Training, recently published in Science and showcased in Make Work Fair. As well as sharing ground-breaking insights on inclusive talent attraction from Jackie Beer at Worley and inclusive performance from Steph Rice and Juillitta Sofat at Nationwide Building Society.
Finally, Katryn stressed to the audience that this is an active community and we need their involvement. Iris wrote What Works: Gender Equality by Design in 2015 and her latest book with Siri marks progress because of all the experiments that have been conducted in the years since. There is still so much to learn, so we call on leaders everywhere to make their contribution: Not just by hoping your interventions work but testing them with high standards of evaluation and sharing what you learn.
We are pleased to be at the heart of an ever-growing group of leaders dedicated to this progressive model, and invite others to join that mission below:
“The more experiments we run, the more we’ll learn, and the faster we’ll make progress”
Long-term collaborator and experimental pioneer, Frances McAndrew, asking the panel a question about new research.
If you want to grab your own copy of Make Work Fair, you can do so here.