Building Collective Efficacy to Support Public Health Workforce Development
| Autor: | Ranjita Misra, Daniel J. Barnett, Craig Tower, Elizabeth Van Nostrand |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Context (language use) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Organization development medicine Humans Learning Health Workforce Staff Development 030212 general & internal medicine 030505 public health Holistic education business.industry Health Policy Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Workforce development Collective efficacy Workforce Public Health 0305 other medical science business Social cognitive theory |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 27:55-61 |
| ISSN: | 1078-4659 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/phh.0000000000000987 |
| Popis: | CONTEXT Leaders in public health have made great advances in workforce development over the past 30 years, while shifting from an emphasis based in training on individual, technical skills to a more holistic development approach, which boosts crosscutting skills. Efforts to increase public health workforce capabilities remain focused on workers as individuals, rather than the workforce as a collective unit. PROGRAM Research has shown that a strategic adult learning approach can improve both individual capabilities and the collective performance of the workforce, which can be explained using social cognitive theory and the concept of collective efficacy, or the collective belief of workers in the ability of the group to succeed. We explain how a prior training program pushed us to explore this approach. IMPLEMENTATION The proposed approach covers proposed implementation strategies to build collective efficacy as part of existing workforce development initiatives, with a focus on 5 key steps. EVALUATION Experience in fields as diverse as sports psychology and organizational development has shown that it is possible to evaluate changes in collective efficacy using measures that can be adopted in public health. DISCUSSION Adjusting existing public health workforce development initiatives to build collective efficacy can help link workforce self-confidence to performance. More actionable data are needed to determine the best methods for achieving those goals in the field of public health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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