Evidence-Based Management Course Introduction
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Oct 25, 2021 The podcast introduces the contributors who have been promoting evidence-based management for 20 years. They discuss their motivations, frustrations in academia, challenges in practicing evidence-based management, and the progress made in closing the research practice gap.
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Three Directors, Three Different Plans
- Eric Barends described three hospital directors giving different change plans and having no shared evidence for their choices.
- He traced his interest to evidence-based medicine after asking "what's the evidence for your opinion?"
Textbooks That Clung To Old Theories
- Denise Rousseau recounted noticing management textbooks kept outdated theories like Maslow and Hertzberg in use.
- That led her to push for teaching evidence and building skills so practitioners could update practices.
PhD Chat That Sparked A Movement
- Rob Briner traced his interest back to a PhD conversation and reading about evidence-based medicine decades ago.
- That sparked his lifelong focus on making research more useful for management practice.