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Finish What You Start: A Study Of Design Team Change Initiatives' Impact On Agency Climate, Catherine Lawrence, Nancy Claiborne, Wendy Zeitlin, Charles Auerbach

Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This study employs a multi-site longitudinal design to examine the effect of a Design Team intervention on organizational climate. Thirteen private, not-for-profit child welfare agencies from one state participated in a Design Team intervention to address workforce needs. A total of 407 workers from those agencies responded pre and post intervention to a survey that measures worker perceptions of the psychological climate of their organization using the Parker Psychological Climate Survey. Workers in organizations that completed the Design Team intervention had statistically significant increases in three of the four dimensions of the Parker scale. On the role dimension, significant change …