Jeffrey Pfeffer spreekt voor het congres over evidence based management

Door: Coert Visser Gepubliceerd op 10 mrt, 2007 in de rubriek Boeken & artikelen, Leidinggeven, Onderzoek, Uitspraken

Jeffrey Pfeffer, die ik vorig jaar interviewde (zie hier) heeft een rede voor het Amerikaanse congress gehouden over Evidence Based Management (EBM). Je kunt de hele rede hier lezen en hier downloaden als PDF bestand. Om je een idee te geven waar het over gaat laat ik hier de kopjes uit zijn rede zien en de laatste alinea uit het betoog:

• Evidence-Based Management Practice
• Diffusion and Persistence Don’t Provide Proof of Effectiveness
• The Assumptions that Underlie Individual Pay for Performance
• The Evidence on the Effects of Individual Pay-for-Performance
  is Mixed, at Best
• Building High Performance Cultures

“It is difficult to believe that a pay-for-performance system is going to be able to overcome the message, delivered both explicitly in what is said and implicitly in what is done, that the government work force and, by extension, their activities, are not really valued. It is particularly difficult to believe that a high performance culture will be produced by an intervention that has such a questionable set of assumptions and difficult history as individual pay-for-performance has. There is a large research literature on what it takes to build a high performance workplace. We should implement what we know, rather than what we hope, or wish, might be true.”

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