According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process. Partners contribute their expertise to enhance understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate the knowledge gained with action to benefit the community involved. This review provides a synthesis of key principles of community-based research, examines its place within the context of different scientific paradigms, discusses rationales for its use, and explores major challenges and facilitating factors and their implications for conducting effective community-based research aimed at improving the public’s health.

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Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.

This glossary aims to clarify some of the key concepts associated with participatory action research.

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Participatory action research

This article summarizes a much lengthier one that appeared in Prevention and Treatment. The earlier article grew out of a project initiated by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The Positive Youth Development Evaluation project described why policy makers, practitioners, and prevention scientists advocated a shift in approach for how youth issues are addressed in this country. The Positive Youth Development Evaluation project sought to define how youth development programs have been defined in the literature and then to locate, through a structured search, strong evaluations of these programs and summarize the outcomes of these evaluations. In the current article, we explain why prevention has shifted from a single problem focus to a focus on factors that affect both positive and problem youth development, describe what is meant by positive youth development, and summarize what we know about the effectiveness of positive youth develop...

Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs

T raditionally, works on research design (most of which focus on quantitative research) have understood " design " in one of two ways. Some take designs to be fixed, standard arrangements of research conditions and methods that have their own coherence and logic, as possible answers to the question, " What research design are you using? " (e.g., Campbell & Stanley, 1967). For example, a randomized, double-blind experiment is one research design; an interrupted time-series design is another. Beyond such broad categories as ethnographies, qualitative interview studies, and case studies (which often overlap), qualitative research lacks any such elaborate typology into which studies can be pigeonholed. In addition, typologies are usually based on a limited number of features of the study, and by themselves do little to clarify the actual functioning and interrelationship of the component parts of a design. Other models present design as a logical progression of stages or tasks, from problem formulation to the generation of conclusions or theory, that are necessary in planning or carrying out a study (e.g., Creswell, 1997; Marshall & Rossman, 1999). Such models usually resemble a flowchart with a clear starting point and goal and a specified order for doing the intermediate tasks. Although some versions of this approach are circular or iterative (see, e.g., Bickman & Rog, Chapter 1, this volume), so that later steps connect back to earlier ones, all such models are linear in the sense that they are made up of one-directional sequences of steps that represent what is seen as the optimal order for conceptualizing or conducting the different components or activities of a study. Neither of these models adequately represents the logic and process of qualitative research. In a qualitative study, " research design should be a reflexive process operating through every stage of a project "

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Designing a qualitative study.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Empowerment Evaluation - David M Fetterman An Introduction to Theory and Practice PART TWO: BREADTH AND SCOPE Empowerment Evaluation and Accelerated Schools - Henry M Levin Empowerment Evaluation and the W K Kellogg Foundation - Ricardo A Millett PART THREE: CONTEXT Empowerment Evaluation and State Government - Joyce Keller Moving from Resistance to Adoption The HIV Prevention Evaluation Initiative - Cynthia Gomez and Ellen Goldstein A Model for Collaborative and Empowerment Evaluation Empowerment Evaluation - Cheryl Grills et al Building upon a Tradition of Activism in the African American Community Realizing Participant Empowerment in the Evaluation of Nonprofit Women's Services Organizations - Arlene B Andrews Notes from the Front Line PART FOUR: THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORKS Empowering Community Health Initiatives through Evaluation - Stephen B Fawcett et al Empowerment Evaluation at Federal and Local Levels - Robert K Yin, Shakeh J Kaftarian, and Nancy F Jacobs Dealing with Quality Evaluation and Self-Direction in Community Prevention Coalitions - John F Stevenson, Roger E Mitchell, and Paul Florin Fairness, Liberty, and Empowerment Evaluation - Dennis E Mithaug PART FIVE: WORKSHOPS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND PRACTICE Empowering Community Groups with Evaluation Skills - Jean Ann Linney and Abraham Wandersman The Prevention Plus III Model Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation - Margret A Dugan Lessons Learned in Training and Technical Assistance The Plan Quality Index - Frances D Butterfoss et al An Empowerment Evaluation Tool for Measuring and Improving the Quality of Plans Building Community Capacity with Evaluation Activities That Empower - Steven W Mayer PART SIX: CONCLUSION Conclusion - David M Fetterman Reflections on Emergent Themes and the Next Steps

Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment & accountability

Getting to outcomes: a results-based approach to accountability

FOREWORD - Stewart I Donaldson PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 History and Overview - David M Fetterman 2 Empowerment Evaluation: Theories, Principles, Concepts, and Steps - David M Fetterman PART II: SCOPE AND BREADTH Foundations 3 Mission Fulfillment: How Empowerment Evaluation Enables Funders to Achieve Results - Janice B Yost 4 Foundation Strategy Drives the Choice of Empowerment Evaluation Principles - Laura C Leviton International 5 Capacity Building Through Empowerment Evaluation: An Aymara Women Artisans Organization In Puno, Peru - Susana Sastre-Merino, Pablo Mera, Jose Maria Diaz-Puente, Maria Jose Fernandez-Moral 6 Teachers as Evaluators: An Empowerment Evaluation Approach - Janet Clinton, John Hattie United States 7 Hewlett-Packard's $15 Million Digital Village: A Place-based Empowerment Evaluation Initiative - David M Fetterman 8 Empowerment Evaluation in Action in SAMHSA's Service to Science Initiative: Cultivating Ownership and Enhancing Sustainability - Pamela Imm, Mathew Biewener, Dawn Oparah, Kim Dash PART III: TOOLS 9 Getting To Outcomes: An Empowerment Evaluation Capacity Building Model - Abraham Wandersman 10 "No Excuses": Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness - Ivan Haskell, Aidyn L Iachini 11 Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by 4th and 5th Grade Students - Regina Day Langhout, Jesica Siham Fernandez 12 Building Evaluation Capacity to Engage in Empowerment Evaluation: A Case of Organizational Transformation - Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tina Taylor-Ritzler, Gloria Morales-Curtin 13 An Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Implementing with Quality at Scale: The Quality Implementation Process and Tools - Andrea E Lamont, Annie Wright, Abraham Wandersman, Debra Hamm 14 Empowerment Evaluation: Evaluation Capacity Building in a 10-Year Tobacco Prevention Initiative - David M Fetterman, Linda Delaney, Beverley Triana-Tremain, Marian Evans-Lee PART IV: RESEARCH AND REFLECTION 15 Getting To Outcomes (R): Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work - Mathew Chinman, Joie Acosta, Sarah B Hunter, Patricia Ebener PART V: CONCLUSION 16 Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next Steps Revisited - David M Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, Shakeh J Kaftarian

Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment, evaluation capacity building, and accountability

Bridging the gap between research and practice in community‐based substance abuse prevention

This paper introduces the contributions of this special section on connecting family-focused substance abuse prevention research and practice. Other expert reviews and the meta-analyses discussed in this and the following papers have given us a good idea about what works in this area. They have specified a number of family-focused substance abuse prevention approaches and programs effective in decreasing substance abuse in youth. Unfortunately, some practitioners are still primarily implementing untested, ineffective programs. A number of recommendations are made by the authors of this special section to help improve the adoption of evidence-based family programs to prevent substance abuse by youth.

Shakeh J. Kaftarian

Papers

Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment & accountability

Getting to outcomes: a results-based approach to accountability

Empowerment evaluation : knowledge and tools for self-assessment, evaluation capacity building, and accountability

Bridging the gap between research and practice in community‐based substance abuse prevention

Bridging the Gap Between Family-Focused Research and Substance Abuse Prevention Practice: Preface