Who are Arla Foods?
Arla Foods is one of the largest dairy companies in the world. Arla Foods is working with practical techniques, called inclusion nudges, to mitigate unconscious bias and to achieve an inclusive and innovative collaborative culture that contributes to the global business strategy. In particular to ensure gender equality.
During a two-day implementation and development session, leaders gain insight into how the unconscious mind influences their leadership, how behavioral patterns and group dynamics affect their collaboration and performance, and how they can change this to strengthen their management and business.
What are the impacts?
Exercises are designed as inclusion nudges that create a feeling of the need for inclusive behaviour and processes rather than seeking a strictly rational understanding through business cases and arguments. These exercises can be powerful because they function as eye-openers by illustrating how we tend to evaluate performance, network, who we seek out for input, how we give feedback and more.
As a result of these workshops Arla Foods has changed some of their recruitment and promotions practices to better ensure a more inclusive approach. These changes include:
- In recruitment/promotions leaders and managers no longer make hiring selections alone
- Using diverse recruiting teams
- Dividing the interview into two parts
- They have also included inclusion nudges as part of the performance calibration process.
