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If gender gaps in MBA performance can be significantly reduced through encouraging students to reflect on their personal values, can value reflection also help more women to succeed in the corporate world?

Women have long been subjected to “Stereotype Threat”.  This psychological phenomenon leads people to underperform relative to their potential abilities because of their group affiliation. Stereotype threat can occur whenever an individual is a member of a group that is believed to be “less effective” at a particular task compared to other groups (e.g. women relative to men in competitive negotiations, White American men relative to African American men on physical prowess, etc.). This means that women in competitive corporate and business school environments tend to be disadvantaged relative to similarly qualified men.

Here comes a solution!

Professor Kinias will share insights from her new research studies showing that by facilitating women to reflect on and affirm their personal values, this substantially reduces the gender gap in a competitive business school environment. This positive reinforcement reduces perfectionism, which can interfere with their ability to perform to their potential.  It is believed that this “value reflection activity” could reduce gender gaps wherever objective performance indicators show that men are outperforming relative to similarly qualified women.   This method would also apply in the wider organisational environment.  

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. 

About the speaker: Dr. Zoe Kinias, Organisational Behaviour Professor, INSEAD

Zoe Kinias is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. Her research focuses on how social identities affect individuals’ understanding of social and professional events and on how to improve individual and group performance. This research is published in leading journals, including the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science. It was also reported among the top articles on INSEAD Knowledge in 2013, and has been discussed in such media outlets as Forbes and The Huffington Post.

Professor Kinias currently teaches MBAs, Executives, and PhDs at INSEAD. She previously taught MBAs and Executives at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Undergraduates at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, she has taught very diverse groups of students including leaders of large multinational organizations, directors of medical programs, and cross-functional innovation teams.

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