When bias enters an individual’s work, the results can be very harmful. Allowing bias to impact audits and investigations can lead to the wrong person being punished and the real perpetrator getting away.
This course explores bias and its effects on investigations and audits. You will examine conscious and unconscious bias, how bias affects work and how you can counter its effects.
Learning Objectives
You will learn how to:
- Recognize bias and the ways it can manifest.
- Distinguish conscious from unconscious bias.
- Recognize how bias affects auditors and investigators.
- Categorize the types of bias.
- Discern the ways that unconscious bias occurs.
- Relate bias to professional skepticism.
- Determine ways to mitigate the effects of bias.
