Evidence Based Practice April 2023

What is evidence-based practice?

• A practice based on intuition and experience

• A practice based on tradition and beliefs

• A practice based on scientific evidence and research

• A practice based on personal opinions and biases

Why is evidence-based practice important in people practices and organisational issues?

• It helps practitioners to make decisions based on facts and not on assumptions or personal biases

• It helps practitioners to save time and resources by avoiding trial and error

• It ensures that decisions are consistent and objective across different practitioners

• All of the above

How can evidence-based practice be used to support sound decision-making and judgments?

• By identifying and using the best available evidence to inform decisions

• By involving stakeholders in the decision-making process

•  By considering ethical and moral values in decision-making

• By relying on personal experience and intuition

What is a SWOT analysis?

•  An analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organisation

• An analysis of the sales, wages, operations, and technology of an organisation

• An analysis of the stakeholders, values, objectives, and tactics of an organisation

• An analysis of the suppliers, workers, owners, and customers of an organisation

What is a PESTEL analysis?

• An analysis of the political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental, and legal factors affecting an organisation

• An analysis of the profitability, efficiency, sustainability, teamwork, ethics, and leadership of an organisation

• An analysis of the products, customers, suppliers, competitors, distribution, and promotion of an organisation

• An analysis of the personality, emotions, values, and attitudes of the employees of an organisation

What are the main principles of critical thinking?

• Clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness

• Creativity, intuition, empathy, passion, integrity, confidence, courage, and humour

• Power, influence, status, fame, wealth, beauty, pleasure, and comfort

• Loyalty, obedience, conformity, tradition, authority, religion, superstition, and dogmatism

How can critical thinking apply to individual and work colleagues’ ideas?

•  By analyzing and evaluating ideas based on the main principles of critical thinking

• By accepting and rejecting ideas based on personal preferences and biases

• By ignoring and dismissing ideas based on social status and power dynamics

• By copying and imitating ideas based on popular trends and fads

How can critical thinking assist objective and rationale debate?

• By promoting logical and evidence-based arguments

• By attacking and discrediting opponents' arguments

• By appealing to emotions and prejudices of the audience

• By using fallacies and biases to win the argument

Who is the philosopher associated with Kantianism?

• Aristotle

• Immanuel Kant

• John Stuart Mill

• Jeremy Bentham

What is the fundamental principle of Kantianism?

• The greatest happiness for the greatest number

• The end justifies the means

• The categorical imperative

• The golden rule