Need to Know

Subject areas you need to know

Programs, interventions, take place in organizations, so it helps to know something about organizations. Programs also involve people working together, so social psychology is useful. And so on.

Organizations

Organizational Theory: Determinants of Structure http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/orgtheory.htm Stephen P. Borgatti, 2001. Brief introduction to some concepts used in describing and understanding organizational structure. More notes are here http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/handouts.htm brief introductions to various organization topics.

Formal Organizations. http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/ François Nielsen. See the class Soc410, then class notes. Has some class notes with some basic info on organization behavior. From 2001.

Smith, M. K. (2001) 'The learning organization', the encyclopedia of informal education, http://infed.org/mobi/the-learning-organization/ summary of some theories of the learning organization, and links to other summaries related to learning orgs (some of which don't work).

Organizational Behavior https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=30 Start with chapter 14 about organizational structure http://open.lib.umn.edu/organizationalbehavior/chapter/14-2-organizational-structure/ basic concepts of how organizations are organized.

NOTE: the opening page says "Organizational Behavior is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative."

Organization change

Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector. http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/files/ManagingChange.pdf Sergio Fernandez and Hal G . Rainey. Public Adminisration Review • March | April 2006. Successful change comes from 1. Ensuring the need, 2. Providing a plan, 3. Build Internal Support for Change and Overcome Resistance, 4. Ensure Top-Management Support and Commitment, 5. Build External Support, 6. Provide Resources, 7. Institutionalize Change and 8. Pursue Comprehensive Change

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000 Mar–Apr; 7(2): 116–124. Managing Change, An Overview. Nancy M. Lorenzi and Robert T. Riley. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61464/ says, for example, "Human beings do not necessarily resist change automatically; however, many people do resist being changed, i.e., having changes imposed on them." and "change always requires the effort to learn the new, which is a loss in terms of time and energy that could have been used elsewhere."

Teams

Working in teams http://courses.washington.edu/ie337/ 2010. Richard Lee Storch. See classroom material, "Working in teams". Especially see one characteristic: Adequate resources are available to permit the team to perform it’s function, including skills, tools, facilities, and budgets.

A "Sweet 16" Of Rules About Teamwork http://appel.nasa.gov/2002/03/01/a-sweet-16-of-rules-about-teamwork/ also has a full article of 99 rules of teamwork. From 2002.

Social Psychology

Social psychology is important because it deals, in general, with groups, how people interact with groups and how people interact with each other. These are some of the theories.

Together: The Science of Social Psychology http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=393 2016. Topics like self and identity, the psychology of groups, social influence, etc. Each chapter has it's own author.

Principles of Social Psychology http://open.lib.umn.edu/socialpsychology/ 2015. Similar topics as above.

Social Psychology basics http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/socpsy.html Dr. George Boeree. brief chapters outlining some basic concepts in social psych, including social learning, persuasion, social economics (making decisions about social activities, etc), conformity. From 1999.

Susan Losh's home page http://myweb.fsu.edu/slosh/index.html lists a class:

Social psychology http://myweb.fsu.edu/slosh/SocialPsychOverview.html with topics like attitudes, personality, groups

Behavior or behavior change

These are brief reviews, but can give you some ideas of what to look for.

Icek Ajzen's theory of planned behavior http://people.umass.edu/~aizen/index.html click on "TpB" then the model.

"Theory at a glance" https://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu/chbr Click on "Theory", then the top monograph is Theory at a glance. This is about health promotion but also reviews theories of behavior. From 2005

Integrated Theory of Health Behavior Change. Background and Intervention Development. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778019/ article by Polly Ryan, in Clin Nurse Spec. 2009 May–Jun; 23(3): 161–172.

Theories of behavior change http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTGOVACC/Resources/BehaviorChangeweb.pdf by World Bank, 2009. From the Communications for Governance and Accountability Program.

Extended review

Behaviour change. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cubec/evidencereviews/ Myra Mohnen and Imran Rasul. Published November 2010.

Also see Influencing behaviour through public policy. Same web page. Paul Dolan, Michael Hallsworth, David Halpern, Dominic King, Ivo Vlaev. October 2010

This page last reviewed and updated 9/24/2018