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A conceptual and measurement framework to guide policy development and systems change. |
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Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(1), March 2012, pp.63-72. |
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1741-1122 |
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1741-1130 |
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This article presents a conceptual and measurement framework that provides a template for guiding policy development and systems change. The article is based on the following three premises regarding policy development and systems change. First, policymakers, system-level personnel, and organisation leaders need to understand the concepts of vertical and horizontal alignment and how the analysis of these two types of alignment provides the basis for policy development and systems change. Second, policy development, which is based on vertical alignment, focuses on enhancing the congruence between system-level process and organisation-level practices. Third, systems change, which is based on horizontal alignment, focuses on enhancing the logical sequence of the input, throughput, and output components of system-level processes and organisation-level practices. Application of the framework can structure the thinking and analytic activities of systems and organisation-level personnel and can help them identify significant disconnects between and among system-level processes and organisation-level practices. The article concludes with a discussion of a number of change-oriented principles and guidelines that address significant challenges faced today by intellectual and developmental disabilities' organisations and systems. |
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article; |
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change management; learning disabilities; organisational development; organisational structure; policy formulation; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=a6909afa-44e0-4a24-8647-4a81f30ced4e |
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