Assessing Organizational Functioning as a Step Toward Innovation
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Innovate and adapt are watchwords for substance abuse treatment programs in today's environment of legislative mandates, effective new interventions, and competition. Organizations are having to evolve - ready or not - and those that are ready have superior chances for success and survival. The Texas Christian University Organizational Readiness for Change (ORC) survey is a free instrument, with supporting materials, that substance abuse treatment programs use to assess organizational traits that can facilitate or hinder efforts at transition. This article presents organizational change as a three-stage process of adopting, implementing, and routinizing new procedures; describes the use of the ORC; and outlines a step-by-step procedure for clearing away potential obstacles before setting forth on the road to improved practices and outcomes.
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Established high quality discussions and informal clear communications positively affect implementation effectiveness.
“This finding is supported by Simpson and Dansereau (71) study that suggests established, high quality discussions, as well as informal, clear communications, positively affect implementation effectiveness.”
From Barriers and facilitators to implementation of developmental screening and early intervention in Canadian organizations following completion of a training and coaching model: a thematic analysis (2023) · cites this paper as Simpson and Dansereau (71)
In “The Path to Change” (page not provided), the paper says time for participant discussion improves a program’s chances of implementing an innovation. In “Step 1: Select Goals” (page not provided), it presents clearer communication as a way to improve change readiness. It does not establish that high-quality discussions or informal, clear communications positively affect implementation effectiveness specifically. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“This finding is supported by Simpson and Dansereau (71) study that suggests established, high quality discussions, as well as informal, clear communications, positively affect implementation effectiveness.”
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- Authors
- Simpson, D. D., & Dansereau, D.
- Affiliations
- Texas Christian University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Simpson, D. Dwayne
- Venue
- Science & Practice Perspectives
- Publisher
- NIDA/RTI International
- Published
- 2007-04
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 20-28
- ISSN
- 1930-4307 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-4315
- PMC
- PMC2851070
- OpenAlex
- W2037225987
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 13.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science & Practice Perspectives (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R37DA013093, R37DA13093, R01 DA06162, R01DA006162)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Management and Change
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Keywords
- organizational preparedness, addiction treatment programs, organizational change, innovation, organizational functioning, organizational adaptation, Texas Christian University
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Management Audit, Organizational Innovation, Organizational Objectives, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results, Program Evaluation, Substance Abuse Treatment Centers, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Substance-Related Disorders
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