Subject areas you need
to know
(working on this...)
When doing program evaluation, you need to have some knowledge in a
variety of areas. Programs 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
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/
See the class, then class notes. Has some class notes with some basic
info on organization behavior.
Overview of Organizational Change http://www.managementhelp.org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD . Links to resources, and some
basic overviews by Dr. McNamara.
Smith, M. K. (2001) 'The learning organization', the encyclopedia of
informal education, http://www.infed.org/biblio/learning-organization.htm
summary of some theories of the learning organization, and links to
other summaries related to learning orgs (some of which don't work).
Behavior or behavior change
These are pretty brief reviews, but can give you some ideas of what to
look for.
Icek
Aizen's theory of planned behavior http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~aizen/index.html
click on "TpB" then the model.
Behavior Change Theories and Models http://www.csupomona.edu/~jvgrizzell/best_practices/bctheory.html
very brief review of theories.
Center for Health Communication Research http://chcr.umich.edu/
click on 'how we do it' and then 'health behavior theories'.
Theory at a Glance https://cissecure.nci.nih.gov/ncipubs/details.asp?pid=1302
This is about health promotion but also reviews theories of behavior.
Changing Minds http://www.changeminds.org/index.htm
"the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what
others think, believe, feel and do. " An interesting approach to
how to change minds.
Organization change and
resistance to
change
Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector. Sergio
Fernandez, Hal G. Rainey. Public Administration Review
Volume 66 Page 168 - March 2006. http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_par_t2p_archives.cfm
There are also commentaries here by Mary Tschirhart, and by
Patrick E. Connor and Fred Thompson, which offer a very brief
summary and discussion.
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.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=61464
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
Team Diagnostics http://team-diagnostics.com/
has some research and theory, and explanations of team behavior. For
example, this page http://team-diagnostics.com/index-2.html
has brief info about "What factors improve team
effectiveness?" There is also a little more info in this
technical description of the survey here http://team-diagnostics.com/index-1.html
and see some pages from Dr. Hackman's book here http://www.leadingteams.org/
The first couple of pages from each chapter are available here.
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.
Social Psychology basics http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/socpsy.html
brief chapters outlining some basic concepts in social psych,
including
social learning, persuasion, social economics (making decisions about
social
activities, etc), conformity.
Susan Losh's home page http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~slosh//Index.htm
links to some of her classes, two of which are
group processess http://edp5285-01.sp05.fsu.edu/Overview.html
social psychology http://syp5105-01.fa05.fsu.edu/Overview-2006.html
The guides on these pages are brief overviews of group processes,
social
psychology
Resources for teaching social
psychology http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/
links to links
Social psychology network http://www.socialpsychology.org/
also links to links
Self Efficacy
Information on Self Efficacy http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html
has definitions, articles, chapters, the place to start.
Self efficacy http://www.positivepractices.com/Efficacy/SelfEfficacy.html
brief discussions of definitions, history, etc.
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