Educating New Management Specialists From an Evidence-Based Perspective: A Proposal

Abstract

Rousseau and McCarthy (2007) performed a significant service to management education by outlining the history of and current circumstance for the use of evidence-based management (EBM) by U.S.-educated and trained managers: “EBM means managerial decisions and organizational practices informed by the best available scientific evidence” (84). Although these authors contrast practices in medicine and education with those in management, they also might have contrasted management with some of the so-called functional areas of business in the same college or school, namely, finance (economics), and operations (industrial engineering), or even industrial organizational psychology (applied psychology), and electrical engineering (physics and chemistry) that are all guided by sets of principles derived from a body of empirical evidence. Compared to these professions, management does a poor job of educating students in the scientific method or training them to employ evidence generated by this method to inform their decisions. Why is this the case? What do specialists have that generalists lack in professional education?

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