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From Ecological Analysis, Comprehensive Approaches to Systems Change - Overview
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Health promotion and social development programming is making a paradigm shift that ensures that the implementation of interventions, multi-intervention programs and multi-component approaches firmly embedded within ecological analysis, & comprehensive approaches towards a systems change paradigm and incremental, systems-focused actions. This shift broadens the focus beyond solely promoting isolated evidence-based interventions, continues the trend to use ecological analysis and multi-component approaches and multi-intervention programs towards more and better use of systems science and organizational development strategies which are already used in the private, health care and other sectors. This knowledge enables us to Identify and address the characteristics of open, adaptive, complex, loosely-coupled, professional bureaucracies, organizational readiness and cultures as well as work effectively across several multi-level sectors and systems. Rather than linear, logic planning models aimed at implementing single interventions, a systems-focused paradigm recognizes that structures, organizational routines, scarce resources, boundaries, non-rational decision-making and the adopter concerns of employees all matter within large, complex systems. Continuous improvement, often driven by intrinsically motivated, semi-autonomous professionals, attention-gathering incidents and led by policy entrepreneurs, also enable teams and professionals within these large organizations to respond to urgent needs or opportunities across the spectrum of their work rather than act within or react to a top-down, predetermined program choice or prescribed change process.
This summary was first posted in June 2018. Currently it has been posted as a"first edition" version. The following individuals or organizations have contributed to the development of this topic.Daniel Laitsch,Lauren Herlitz,Scott Rosas, Doug McCall We encourage readers to submit comments or suggested edits by posting a comment on the Mini-blog & Discussion Page on Ecological Analysis, Comprehensive Approaches & Systems Change for this section or posting a comment below: Text
This summary was first posted in June 2012. Currently it has been posted as an "excerpt/adaptation", "first draft" or "revised draft" and "first or revised edition" version. The following individuals or organizations have contributed to the development of this topic. We encourage readers to submit comments or suggested edits by posting a comment on the Mini-blog & Discussion Page for this section or posting a comment below: Text
This summary was first posted in June 2012. Currently it has been posted as an "excerpt/adaptation", "first draft" or "revised draft" and "first or revised edition" version. The following individuals or organizations have contributed to the development of this topic. We encourage readers to submit comments or suggested edits by posting a comment on the Mini-blog & Discussion Page for this section or posting a comment below: Due to the length of Handbook Sections (similar to a book chapter) prepared for this web site and knowledge exchange program, we post these documents as separate documents. Click on this web link to access the draft or completed version on this topic. Come back to this page to post any comments or suggestions. Bibliography/Toolbox on
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The number of summaries completed or drafted in this section are listed below. Understand the Paradigm
- Systems Thinking - Systems Science - Organization Development Models - Wicked Problems vs Artificial, Specific Programs or Vague Goals - Management/Change Models * Total Quality Management * Coherence Building * Continuous Improvement - School-Based Management Education systems are “open, adaptive, complex, loosely-coupled, professional bureaucracies that must work across, with and within other large complex systems”
- Resilient systems - Feedback loops · Boundaries · Contexts · System-environment interactions - Size, complexity, fit of the change · Innovations vs Reforms - absorptive capacity
· Ecology/micro-politics of schools · Role of senior leaders/managers · Role of middle managers · Role of Front-line Managers · Role of front-line staff · Change Agents/Coordinators - Employee Agency/Efficacy
· Structures · Internal communications · Social networks within organizations · Non-rational decision-making · Routinization and key routines · Knowledge as power & influence · Organizational culture · Readiness for innovation · Adopter Concerns · Professional norms · Professional identities · Sociology & work lives of employees
· Cooperation Across & Within · Nature of Partnerships · Whole of Government Approaches - Research Questions/Knowledge Development
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