TY - JOUR AU - Allen, Judd AB - Cultural Change A Sense of Community, A Shared Vision and a Positive Culture: Core Enabling Factors in Successful Culture Based Health Promotion Robert F. Allen, Ph.D. Judd Allen, Ph.D. As has been pointed out in communities to successfully approach previous reviews of culture change change. This particular study approaches, such programs require focused on identifying: (a) factors the continuing commitment of a that seemed to have been most significant number of organizational important in blocking solutions to the problems prior to the members. ’4 Systematic culture change is more than periodic introduction of the change project; random offerings such as a health and (b) factors that contributed most significantly to the solutions that hazard appraisal, a workshop, a were eventually achieved. Examining packaged sen~inar, or a promotional the relationship between these factors flier. Culture change requires a comprehensive systematized and was expected to identify core cultural continuing revision of cultural factors which would empower influence mechanisms such as organizational members to initiate rewards, social recognition, training, and adopt needed change. orientation, communication, and information systems. Key factors Twenty culture change programs have been found to be highly were identified for the study. important in bringing about and Programs were TI - A Sense of Community, a Shared Vision and a Positive Culture: Core Enabling Factors in Successful Culture Based Health Promotion JF - American Journal of Health Promotion DO - 10.4278/0890-1171-1.3.40 DA - 1986-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-sense-of-community-a-shared-vision-and-a-positive-culture-core-ezDvShdYLC SP - 40 EP - 47 VL - 1 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -