Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice
SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of...
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| author | Evans, S. Prilleltensky, O. McKenzie, A. Prilleltensky, Issac Nogueras, D. Huggins, C. Mescia, N. |
| author_facet | Evans, S. Prilleltensky, O. McKenzie, A. Prilleltensky, Issac Nogueras, D. Huggins, C. Mescia, N. |
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| description | SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of five organizations tackling internal organizational change in order to better promote justice and well-being in their respective constituencies. In this article we present a formative evaluation of this multicase study of organizational change in human services. This article contributes to the empirical and theoretical literature on organizational change in the nonprofit human service milieu. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-417122017-09-13T14:16:24Z Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice Evans, S. Prilleltensky, O. McKenzie, A. Prilleltensky, Issac Nogueras, D. Huggins, C. Mescia, N. SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of five organizations tackling internal organizational change in order to better promote justice and well-being in their respective constituencies. In this article we present a formative evaluation of this multicase study of organizational change in human services. This article contributes to the empirical and theoretical literature on organizational change in the nonprofit human service milieu. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41712 10.1080/10852352.2011.530166 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Evans, S. Prilleltensky, O. McKenzie, A. Prilleltensky, Issac Nogueras, D. Huggins, C. Mescia, N. Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title | Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title_full | Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title_fullStr | Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title_short | Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: Lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| title_sort | promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: lessons for research, theory, and practice |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41712 |