BIO
Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. She is Academic Board President, Center for Evidence-Based Management, and Co-Chair, Campbell Collaboration, Management and Business Coordinating Group (MBCG). Rousseau’s research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Her publications include over a dozen books and over 230 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s Terry Award for best management book for I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselvesin 2006 and Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreementin 1995.
She has served as President of the Academy of Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rousseau received her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Rousseau founded the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative, a network of scholars, consultants, and practicing managers to promote evidence-informed organizational practices and decision making. Her book Evidence-based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions with Eric Barends (Kogan Page) is also available for teachers and students in the on-line course in EBMgt at www.cmu.edu/oli.
Preliminary title
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY