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Evidence-based practice in business psychology
Posted: 13/11/11
Date and time:
6.00 pm 24th January 2012
Venue:
University of Westminster
309, Regent St.
London W1B 2UW
Description:
The notion of “evidence-based practice” is now well-established in many professions though not, it appears, in organizational or business psychology. This presentation will first consider the notion of evidence-based practice is and where its ideas originate. Next, the extent to which business psychology is currently evidence-based will be considered. Barriers to evidence-based practice in business psychology will be identified along with ways of overcoming such barriers and improving the use of different forms of evidence. Last, I will discuss the key role and responsibility of professional bodies such as ABP in the evolution of evidence-based practice.
Rob Briner is so well known in the world of psychology that he needs very little introduction. He is now Professor of Organisational Psychology at the School of Management, University of Bath. He was previously at Birkbeck College, University of London and completed his PhD at the Institute of Work Psychology (previously SAPU) at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests for over 25 years centre on the reciprocal links between work conditions (e.g. characteristics, events, the psychological contract, contexts) psychological well-being (e.g. emotion, moods, ‘stress’, satisfaction) and various behaviours (e.g. pro- and anti-social, withdrawal and withdrawal of effort, engagement, job crafting). He also works on a number of more specific topics such as ethnicity, absence and work-nonwork relationships. A major focus of his work is now on evidence-based management and evidence-based organisational psychology. He has published and presented widely on the topic and also runs numerous workshops and training events for organisations, practitioners and researchers focusing on increasing and improving the use of evidence in practice.