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Evidence-based management

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, evidence-based management means: Making management choices by critically using research, organisational data, professional experience and stakeholder perspectives.

In Turkish: kanıta dayalı yönetim

How it is used

Use when the quality and relevance of evidence are assessed, rather than simply collecting more numbers.

Example sentences

  1. Evidence-based management led us to compare research findings with our own absence records.

    External findings and local evidence inform the same management question.

  2. The director used evidence-based management to question a training practice that everyone took for granted.

    Established custom is examined against relevant evidence rather than accepted automatically.

Common collocations

  • practise evidence-based management
  • evidence-based management approach
  • data-drivenBased on the analysis of facts and figures rather than on opinion, habit or intuition; used about decisions, company cultures and organisations.
  • decision-makingThe process of choosing between different options, including collecting information, weighing risks and benefits, and agreeing who makes the final choice.

More terms: Decision Making

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