Explaining intervention success and failure: What works, when, and why?
Abstract
This chapter outlines lessons learnt from the development, implementation, and evaluation of an organizational intervention provided to a sample of corrections employees. Like many organizational intervention studies, we only conducted an evaluation of the intervention’s targeted distal outcomes, without directly measuring aspects of the intervention’s context and process. As a result, we were unable to formally assess alternate explanations for our non-significant results. Based on our own experience, and a review of intervention research, we propose a comprehensive framework for evaluating organizational interventions that ...
View more >This chapter outlines lessons learnt from the development, implementation, and evaluation of an organizational intervention provided to a sample of corrections employees. Like many organizational intervention studies, we only conducted an evaluation of the intervention’s targeted distal outcomes, without directly measuring aspects of the intervention’s context and process. As a result, we were unable to formally assess alternate explanations for our non-significant results. Based on our own experience, and a review of intervention research, we propose a comprehensive framework for evaluating organizational interventions that considers the intervention’s context, process, mediating proximal effects, and targeted distal outcomes.
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View more >This chapter outlines lessons learnt from the development, implementation, and evaluation of an organizational intervention provided to a sample of corrections employees. Like many organizational intervention studies, we only conducted an evaluation of the intervention’s targeted distal outcomes, without directly measuring aspects of the intervention’s context and process. As a result, we were unable to formally assess alternate explanations for our non-significant results. Based on our own experience, and a review of intervention research, we propose a comprehensive framework for evaluating organizational interventions that considers the intervention’s context, process, mediating proximal effects, and targeted distal outcomes.
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Book Title
Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success
Subject
Psychology not elsewhere classified