A QUEST FOR EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS/PRACTICES (EBMIs). DERIVATION AND TESTING OF MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS/PRACTICES IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS(RCTS)

In this paper we develop an idea regarding the introduction into the management field of a modern methodology existent already within more traditional fields such as medicine and psychiatry, or younger fields such as psychology. The idea around which gravitates all the discussion in the paper is to move towards a scientifically validated management practice. In this line of thinking, we make a quest for developing managerial interventions/practices from the existent scientifically validated theories in the field of management and previously introducing those managerial interventions/practices into organizations, test them into what is called in medicine, psychiatry or psychology a Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT). We argue that only the management interventions / practices, which have been tested in RCTs and found empirical support at a statistical significance level, constitute the Evidence-Based Management Interventions (EBMIs). We conclude presenting an example, regarding the derivation of a specific managerial intervention for the purpose of testing it in an RCT and open the discussions regarding the introduction of the managerial intervention/practice into the organizations.