I am pleased to announced that www.evidence-basedmanagement.com went live earlier this week. Jeff Pfeffer and I have been working on this all summer with two fantastic librarians from the Stanford Business School, Daphne Chang and Paul Reist (see my post In Praise of Librarians) and the equally fantastic Ralph Maurer, a doctoral student in the Department of Management Science & Engineering who works with me at the Center for Work Technology and Organization.
The site contains information about what evidence-based management is,examples of evidence-based research and practice, a blog (which has a couple posts and will soon have more),links to information about evidence-based movements in other areas such as medicine and education and course outlines from faculty who are teaching management courses that take an evidence-based management perspective. Along those lines, you can see the draft outline for the course the Ralph Maurer and I will be teaching in Winter, Organizational Behavior: An Evidence-Based Perspective, which includes links to articles and examples as well. We also will start having regular guest columns from both academics and practioners about topics that are pertinent to evidence-based management.
I hope you will visit the website for a few reasons. First, as it is a new website, we would be grateful for suggestions about how to make it more compelling and useful. We just view this as a prototype and will work to make ever better. Second, if you have any materials or information about evidence-based approaches, please pass them our way, and will organize the information and pass it on to others. Third, finally, please visit the blog and make some comments.
Pfeffer and I have been working together for years, and our motto is "when two people agree, one of them is unnecessary! So please, feel free to explain — using logic and facts of course — why we and others have spouted half-truths or total nonsense. We don’t promise to accept your point of view, but we do promise to respect it!
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