Date: 22nd July 2009 | Time: 15:00 CET (Central European Time)

How Evidence-Based Management can stop HR being damaged by fads and fashions?

Professor Rob Briner
Professor of Organizational Psychology Head of the School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck University

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Overview:

The notion of evidence-based practice is not firmly established in medicine and other areas of practice. It is based on the ideas that decisions should incorporate the best external evidence from research. Management appears to be one of the last areas of professional practice which has not seriously considered how decision-making. Why is this the case and how can organizations get hold of and use the best evidence?

You will discover:

• Exactly what is evidence-based practice?
• To what extent are management decisions evidence-based?
• How do fads and fashions get in the way of effective decision-making?
• How can organizations develop evidence-based management?

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Presented by:

Professor Rob Briner:
Professor of Organizational Psychology
Head of the School of Management and Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck University

Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Head of the School of Management and Organizational Psychology. His research focuses on the reciprocal links between work and various aspects of well-being such as moods and emotions. His other interests include the psychological contract at work, absence, ethnicity, work-nonwork relationships, and contextual performance. He is also involved with a number of evidence-based management initiatives.

He has published in journals such as Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology , Journal of Organizational Behavior , and Journal of Vocational Behavior and in 2005 published a book on the psychological contract with Neil Conway

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Editor
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