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Friday, July 19, 2019

Is there such a thing as “Evidence-Based Management” ? Essay -- Manage

There are plenty of ways and practices available to managers, practitioners and educators to carry out their businesses for the persuasion of required goals, this vast array of choice and awareness make them ambitious to decide which one is workable and which one is not and this make them always keep on trying one and other technique, method or/and process and at this point according to Pfeffer and Sutton(2006) evidence rescue them to decide which one is the right one. This essay, focusing on this respect, will be a critical reading and analysis of strengths and weaknesses to Rousseau’s (2006) article on ‘Is there such a thing as â€Å"Evidence –Based Management†. This essay will first introduce how if evidence based management helps managers. Secondly, it will analyze Rousseau’s repeatedly references to the development in clinical and evidence based medicines and links it with evidence based management and what is the status of evidence based manage ment practices. Thirdly, it will critically analyze the Rousseau’s use of story â€Å"Making feedback people friendly†. Followed by how there is variation between theory and practice. Fourthly, This essay will critically analyze Organizational Legitimacy, implementation of knowledge as an outcome of evidence based management and roles of schools, teachers, students in creating the environment for evidence based management. Rousseau says by citing Barlow(2004) ,DeAngelis(2005),Lemieux Charles & Champ agu (2004), Walshe & Rundall(2001) that Evidence based management helps managers to gain expertise and making effective decision which otherwise they cannot arise at by using solely their own intuition. These evidences are specific to not only problems faced but also to culture and other organizat... ...mpagne,f.2004,Using knowledge and evidence in healthcare:Multidisciplinary perspective, University of Toronto Press, Toronto. Pffer,J. 2006,Management half-truth and nonsense : How to practice evidence-based management, California Management Review, vol.48,No.3 Pffer,J. & Sutton,R. 2006,Evidence-based management, Harvard business Review ,januray 2006 Rousseau, D. 2006, Is there such a thing as evidence based management? , Academy of Management Review, vol.31, 2, pp.256-269 Raine , R . 1998 . ‘ Evidence-based Policy: Rhetoric and Reality ’ , Journal of Health Service Research Policy , 3 , 4 , 251 – 3 . Sackett,et al. 2000,Evidence-based medicines:How to practice and teach EBM, Newyork : Church Living Stone. Walshe,K. & Rundall,T. 2001, Evidence based management:From theory to practice in health care ,Milbank Quarterly, Vol.79, PP.429-457

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