Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Management: What Management Educators Can Learn From Medicine

A L Wright; Stuart Middleton; G Greenfield; J Williams; V Brazil

doi:10.1177/1052562915624123

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Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Management: What Management Educators Can Learn From Medicine

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Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Management: What Management Educators Can Learn From Medicine

A L Wright, Stuart Middleton, G Greenfield, J Williams and V Brazil

Journal of Management Education, Vol.40(2), pp.194-219

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562915624123

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evidence-based management

evidence-based practice

problem solving

teaching strategies

student learning

experiential learning

simulation

case teaching

problem-based learning

reflection

Evidence-based management (EBMgt) is a growing literature stream in management education which contends that management decision making should be informed by the best available scientific evidence (Rousseau, 2006). Encouraged by the success of evidence-based practice in the field of medicine, advocates of EBMgt have increasingly called for management educators to develop graduates into evidence-based practitioners who-like physicians-value and use evidence in their daily practice in organizations. In this essay, we contribute to these debates by exploring three strategies that are used in medicine to train physicians to engage with evidence: embedding the normative foundation of evidence in problem-solving routines, role modelling being a reflective research consumer, and creating teachable moments through lived experience of research. We consider whether and how these strategies can be adapted to inform teaching the teaching of EBMgt. Drawing on these insights from physician training, we suggest a range of methods and techniques that management educators can implement in their teaching to facilitate student learning about evidence-based practice. We also consider the challenge of developing evidence-based cultures in organizations. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.

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Title: Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Management: What Management Educators Can Learn From Medicine
Authors: A L Wright (Author) - University of Queensland
Stuart Middleton (Author) - UnitingCare Queensland
G Greenfield (Author) - University of Queensland
J Williams (Author) - Queensland Health
V Brazil (Author) - Bond University
Publication details: Journal of Management Education, Vol.40(2), pp.194-219
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc.
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1177/1052562915624123
ISSN: 1052-5629
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450581202621
Output Type: Journal article

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