UPEI Contributes to Award-Winning International Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Management
Dr. Tina Saksida, an assistant professor of management in the UPEI School of Business, was a speaker in the Professional Development Workshop (PDW) entitled “Change the World, Teach Evidence-Based Management” that won the 2015 Best PDW Award in the Management Education & Development division of the Academy of Management annual conference. The award was sponsored by ASFOR (the Italian Association for Management Development).
Dr. Saksida, on behalf of her collaborators, Dr. Blake Jelley (UPEI School of Business) and Dr. Edward Gamble (Montana State University), presented a “Case for Competition: Learning about Evidence-Based Management Through Case Competitions.” The presentation was based on an article by Gamble and Jelley, which draws on and combines UPEI School of Business strengths in student case competitions and in evidence-based management. Saksida and Jelley are now adapting those ideas in a new course for second-year business students at UPEI.
Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) is the integration of research and organizational evidence with individual expertise and stakeholder concerns. This workshop dealt with helping university students find and critically appraise evidence by themselves.
The Academy of Management (AOM) is the most influential professional organization for management researchers, instructors, and developers in the world. Based in the United States, AOM has members in more than 100 countries. Over 10,000 researchers, academics, students, and professionals met in Vancouver to present and learn about the latest research findings on management this past August 7-11. The Management Education & Development (MED) division, one of the largest groups, specializes in research about learning and teaching at all university levels.
Organized by Denise M. Rousseau (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Eric Barends (Center for Evidence-Based Management, The Netherlands), and Sara Rynes (University of Iowa, USA), the award-winning workshop included speakers Xander Lub (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Rob Briner (University of Bath, UK), Neil Walshe (University of San Francisco, USA), Barbara Janssen (TEN HAVE Change Management, The Netherlands), Rowena Kerkhove (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands), and Tina Saksida (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada).
