Evidence-based management
(zoals u het nog nooit hoorde?)
Frederik Anseel – Ghent University
Mail: frederik.anseel@ugent.be
Twitter: @fanseel
Web: fanseel.be
Management practice vs. science
•
Similar objectives
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Growing gap between science and practice
– We don’t work together
– Business leaders not up to date with research findings
– Management sciences do not address issues and problems
that are relevant to business practice
– Managers have their own ‘knowledge base’ that is happily
ignored by scientists and vice versa
Companies that screen job
applicants for values (culture fit)
have higher performance than those
that screen for degrees
Because employees have different
learning styles, development
adapted to individual styles will be
more effective
There is a new generation of digital
natives (‘Generation Y’) with a set
of work values markedly different
from other generations
There’s no
evident solution,
only ‘evidence’!
Information and data all
around
30 years of experience
can’t be wrong
Best beschikbare
wetenschappelijke
evidentie
Best beschikbare
informatie in de
organisatie
Evidencebased
beslissing
Expertise, kritisch
denken,
beslissingshulplijnen
Voorkeuren en
belangen van
stakeholders
Evident?!
Management is an
art, it is not a
science like medicine
Evidence-based Medicine
David Sackett
Gordon Guyatt
–
Half of what you learn in medical school will be shown to be either
dead wrong or out-of-date within 5 years of your graduation; the
trouble is that nobody can tell you which half.
–
The most important thing to learn is how to learn on your own:
search for the evidence
–
Remember that your teachers are as full of bullshit as your parents
Evidence ≠
wetenschap
Evidence ≠ bewijs
Geen evidence ≠ Niets doen
Evidence-based =
efficiënt de beste
wetenschappelijke
evidentie raadplegen
CAT = Critically Appraised Topic
HR Analytics
“Behandel je
organisatie als een
prototype”
Evidence-based =
meer betrouwbare
en bruikbare
interne informatie
Objective and documented
Cost-effective
(by definition)
Pioneering
“You have been a
very bad bad HR!”
“Oh yes,
professor!”
What should WE do?
Ask yourself:
“What’s the evidence for that?”
Thanks!
Contact:
Frederik.anseel@ugent.be
Fanseel.be
@fanseel