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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of
the Year Award A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year A
Times Higher Education Book of the Week Best Business Book of the
Year, 800-CEO-READ Gender equality is a moral and a business
imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing
people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. By
de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart
changes that have big impacts. Presenting research-based solutions,
Iris Bohnet hands us the tools we need to move the needle in
classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting
businesses, governments, and the lives of millions. "Bohnet
assembles an impressive assortment of studies that demonstrate how
organizations can achieve gender equity in practice... What Works
is stuffed with good ideas, many equally simple to implement."
-Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal "A practical guide for any
employer seeking to offset the unconscious bias holding back women
in organizations, from orchestras to internet companies." -Andrew
Hill, Financial Times
"Compelling, lucid, and filled with actionable insights, What Works
draws from a deep well of research to explain how we can end gender
inequality."-Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals "A
pathbreaking work, packed with insights on every page... The best
book ever written on behavioral science and discrimination."-Cass
Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge A Financial Times/McKinsey Business
Book of the Year Award Finalist Gender equality is a moral and a
business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and
de-biasing people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive.
Diversity training programs have had limited success, and
individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design
offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of
individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.
Presenting research-based solutions, Iris Bohnet hands us the tools
we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring
and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of
millions. What Works is built on new insights into the human mind.
It draws on data collected by companies, universities, and
governments in Australia, India, Norway, the United Kingdom, the
United States, Zambia, and other countries, often in randomized
controlled trials. It points out dozens of evidence-based
interventions that could be adopted right now and demonstrates how
research is addressing gender bias, improving lives and
performance. What Works shows what more can be done-often at
shockingly low cost and surprisingly high speed.
The concept of landscape character in creating local
distinctiveness has long been recognised in the UK. It is only
recently, however, that the concept has come to define a research
agenda looking at both the causes and consequences of landscape
change. In this research, a transdisciplinary approach was used to
investigate the character and qualities of two agricultural
landscapes and to understand past and future change. Through
farm-based assessments, landscape character was analysed in terms
of landscape coherences. Semi-structured interviews with farmers'
enabled these coherences to be related to farmers' activities and
management motives. 'Leitbilder' were developed at the local and
farm level and the link between farm and locality explored. A clear
link was found between farmers' attitudes towards landscape and the
contribution of their farms to the local landscape. The 'Leitbild'
approach elaborated in this research offers new opportunities for
agricultural policy development and future landscape planning.
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