The airspace had just been closed over London Heatrow, due to the eruption of the vulcano under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier. This didn’t prevent me from meeting up with professor Briner. He is one of the founding fathers of the evidence-based management movement. We caught up at Borough Market in Londen. Among other things, he explains the second wave of evidence-based management movemenent. Continue reading Interview with Rob Briner
We may think we know what goes down well in the workplace. The trouble is there’s very little proof that it works. It is hard to argue with the suggestion that happy workers are more productive or that cutting stress at work will reduce absenteeism. And any job candidate who told an employer he couldn’t do his best work in a team would be unlikely to make the shortlist.
After all, employee engagement, stress reduction and the power of teamwork seem such good sense that few people stop to think further. There is only one problem. There is little or no evidence to back up any of these ideas. Continue reading Show me the evidence….
In October 2009, I got in touch with Denise Rousseau, professor of Organizational Behaviour the Carnegie Mellon University and one of the figureheads of the emerging ‘Evidence Based Management’ school of thought. She was visiting colleagues in Ireland, but took the time to answer a few of my questions. Jeffrey Pfeffer also replied, but was swamped in his work and preparing to leave the country for an extensive trip abroad. He’ll probably give his point of view later. Bob Sutton hasn’t been in touch yet. Recently I got in touch with another leading thinker in this field. His name is Rob Briner, professor of Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London, who already collaborates with Denise on the Evidence Based Management Collaborative. But, back to Denise.
Continue reading Denise Rousseau’s take on evidence-based management
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