Assessing unconscious bias questionnaire—law firms

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Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning
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Assessing unconscious bias questionnaire—law firms

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning

Precedents
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This questionnaire should be completed by managers and partners to help identify unconscious bias and raise self-awareness. It is for personal use only and does not need to be shared with anyone else.

Please select one response only from the three provided choices to each question.

Based on your answers to this questionnaire, you may decide to set yourself a personal action plan to address any issues identified.

Questions

I give some employees access to career-enhancing opportunities more than others, eg involvement in high profile casesAlwaysSometimesNever
I seek buy-in to decisions from some colleagues more than othersAlwaysSometimesNever
I perceive part-time workers to be less committed than othersAlwaysSometimesNever
I perceive working mothers to be less committed than employees without childrenAlwaysSometimesNever
I perceive working fathers to be less committed than employees without childrenAlwaysSometimesNever
I informally sponsor, support or give time to some employees more than othersAlwaysSometimesNever
I informally mentor
Beth Pipe
Beth Pipe, FCIPD

Learning & Development Specialist/Director, OnLive Learning

Beth is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) and has spent over 25 years specialising in Learning and Development. During that time she has worked across a broad variety of different industries and has, for the past 15 years, worked closely with a number of well known law firms; this has involved putting in to place systems and structures to encourage, enable and track the effectiveness of learning activities. 

Adept at face to face course delivery, and always enjoying excellent feedback, Beth is also accomplished at online delivery and created OnLive Learning in response to the challenges presented by the 2020 Covid-19 restrictions.

Beth has written extensively for LexisNexis on subjects such as Performance Management, Managing Change and Stress Management.

Away from her training delivery she is a published author writing about local history, hiking, wildlife and the outdoors and is currently working on her eleventh book. She is also an experienced radio presenter hosting two shows each week on Lake District Radio.

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