CAT Question : What is known in the scientific literature about the effects of unconscious bias training?
You work in the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) team in KPMG Advisory, a large global management consultancy. Your role involves analysing internal data to monitor employee diversity characteristics (e.g., ethnicity, gender) in various middle to senior management positions to identify possible issues around bias and inclusion. The company is always looking for ways to improve D&I and one practice it is thinking of rolling out across the whole business is Unconscious Bias Training.
Discuss;
To what extent was the CAT question chosen made clearer and more focused and more answerable? [15]
To what extent was the CAT question chosen contextualized and embedded in existing published research such that the question makes sense in the context of the existing literature? [5]
To what extent was a framework such as PICOC (or similar) used appropriately to help focus the CAT question? [10]
To what extent were clear criteria appropriate to the CAT question used to include (and exclude) specific studies or papers? [15]
To what extent was an explicit and appropriate search strategy described? [15]
To what extent was a coherent explanation of how the search strategy was appropriate to the CAT question provided? [5]
To what extent were sufficient details presented for each of the studies included? [10]
To what extent was the quality (or trustworthiness) of the studies considered in relation to the CAT question? [5]
To what extent do the conclusions accurately reflect what is known and not known in relation to the CAT question? [10]
To what extent were the limitations of the CAT considered? [5]
To what extent were implications and recommendations briefly discussed? [5]
