Educating Managers From an Evidence-Based Perspective.

Evidence-based management (EBM) means managerial decisions and organizational practices informed by the best available scientific evidence. In this essay we describe the core features of educational processes promoting EBM. These include mastering behavioral principles where the science is clear and developing procedural knowledge based on practice, feedback, and reflection. We also identify key factors in organizational research, education, and management practice that inhibit EBM’s use and ways these can be overcome. —“a wasteland of vocationalism that needed to be transformed into science-based professionalism” H. A. Simon (1991: 139) on business education in the 1950s. —“a variety of pressures in the organizational field of business education are rapidly steering us toward deprofessionalization.” C. Q. Trank and S. L. Rynes (2003: 189) on 21 st century business education. —“a fundamental property of everyday life is that people believe ahead of the evidence.” K. E. Weick (2006; 1724) Evidence-based management (EBM) means managerial decisions and organizational practices informed by the best available scientific evidence. Much like its counterparts in medicine (e.g., Sackett