A pesquisa que faz diferença

Resumos

Os pesquisadores da administração lamentam o fato de que seu trabalho tenha tão pouco impacto na prática gerencial. Os gerentes, por sua vez, procuram conhecimento que possa ajudá-los a melhorar a performance organizacional, mas raramente consultam os trabalhos universitários - frequentemente tidos como incompreensíveis e irrelevantes para os desafios cotidianos. Para que a pesquisa em administração possa fazer diferença para os gerentes são necessárias parcerias mutuamente benéficas que envolvam os gerentes e os pesquisadores e que sejam apoiadas por suas respectivas organizações. Ilustramos a importância da pesquisa da administração relevante para a prática valendo-se de quatro importantes contribuições, juntos, estes casos não somente demonstram como esse tipo de parceria pode produzir conhecimento relevante para a prática, mas também promovem insights para aumentar a probabilidade de ocorrência de encontros produtivos.

Pesquisa em Administração; ciência da administração; administração de performance; instituto de pesquisa e estilos gerenciais

Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practice. Practicing managers, so it is claimed, search for knowledge that will help them improve organizational performance but rarely consult the work of university-based researchers - work that they often find incomprehensible and irrelevant to their day-to-day challenges. We contend that for management research matter to managers it is required the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships involving managers and researchers, as well as the support of their organizations.We illustrate the importance of practice-relevant management research by drawing on four important contributions. Together these illustrations not only demonstrate how this kind of partnership can yield practice-relevant knowledge, but also provide insights into enhancing the likelihood that productive encounters will occur.

Management Research; management science; performance Management; Research institutes; Management styles

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A pesquisa que faz diferença

Eric W. Ford^I; W. Jack Duncan^II; Arthur G. Bedeian^III; Peter M. Ginter^II; Matthew D. Rousculp^II; Alice M. Adams^II

^IPennsylvania State University

^IIUniversity of Alabama

^IIILouisiana State University

RESUMO

Os pesquisadores da administração lamentam o fato de que seu trabalho tenha tão pouco impacto na prática gerencial. Os gerentes, por sua vez, procuram conhecimento que possa ajudá-los a melhorar a performance organizacional, mas raramente consultam os trabalhos universitários – freqüentemente tidos como incompreensíveis e irrelevantes para os desafios cotidianos. Para que a pesquisa em administração possa fazer diferença para os gerentes são necessárias parcerias mutuamente benéficas que envolvam os gerentes e os pesquisadores e que sejam apoiadas por suas respectivas organizações. Ilustramos a importância da pesquisa da administração relevante para a prática valendo-se de quatro importantes contribuições, juntos, estes casos não somente demonstram como esse tipo de parceria pode produzir conhecimento relevante para a prática, mas também promovem insights para aumentar a probabilidade de ocorrência de encontros produtivos.

Palavras-chave:Pesquisa em Administração, ciência da administração, administração de performance, instituto de pesquisa e estilos gerenciais.

ABSTRACT

Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practice. Practicing managers, so it is claimed, search for knowledge that will help them improve organizational performance but rarely consult the work of university-based researchers – work that they often find incomprehensible and irrelevant to their day-to-day challenges. We contend that for management research matter to managers it is required the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships involving managers and researchers, as well as the support of their organizations.We illustrate the importance of practice-relevant management research by drawing on four important contributions. Together these illustrations not only demonstrate how this kind of partnership can yield practice-relevant knowledge, but also provide insights into enhancing the likelihood that productive encounters will occur.

Key words: Management Research, management science, performance Management, Research institutes, Management styles

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Eric W. Ford

Professor de Políticas de Saúde e Administração na Pennsylvania State University. Ph.D. pela University of Alabama

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W. Jack Duncan

Professor de Administração na University of Alabama. Ph.D. pela Louisiana State University.

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Endereço: University of Alabama at Birmingham. 207D BEC, 1530 3rd Avenue South. Birmingham, AL. 35294-4460.

Arthur G. Bedeian

Prof. na Louisiana State University. DBA pela Mississippi State University.

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Peter M. Ginter

Prof. de Administração na University of Alabama. Ph.D. em Teoria Organizacional pela University of North Texas.

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Matthew Rousculp

Pesquisador da Eli Lilly and Company. Ph.D. em Administração de Serviços de Saúde pela University of Alabama

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Alice M. Adams

Doutoranda na University of Alabama

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Artigo convidado.

Texto traduzido por Ana Paula Paes de Paula.

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  25 Jul 2011
• Data do Fascículo
  Dez 2003