Weiss J R, Wallerstein N, MacLean T
College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131-1061, USA.
Am J Health Promot. 1995 Sep-Oct;10(1):37-45; discussion 46. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-10.1.37.
To analyze the organizational development and implementation of an interdisciplinary health promotion project at the University of New Mexico. The effort involved three academic units in a 3-year externally funded project to institutionalize health promotion curricula in the respective schools and to develop a wellness-oriented service for students, faculty, and staff.
The open systems theory was used as a framework to analyze the organizational and role issues that emerged from the data collected through interviews, staff surveys, and document review. The analysis is summarized by five thematic questions: (1) How did the project's vision affect its development? (2) How was leadership enacted, and with what effect? (3) What were the organizational issues for the staff? (4) What were the interdisciplinary dilemmas? (5) What was instituted or changed as a result of the project?
The analysis uncovered a series of interpersonal and organizational dilemmas involving the nature of the organizational environment, the character of interdisciplinary work, leadership, boundaries of group membership, and the structuring of a unified vision.
Future projects should consider the strength and stability of the boundary spanners, the resource context, and the role of a unified vision for new and organizationally linked units as key issues in facilitating and sustaining change.
分析新墨西哥大学一个跨学科健康促进项目的组织发展与实施情况。该项目为期三年，由外部资助，涉及三个学术单位，旨在将健康促进课程在各学校制度化，并为学生、教师和工作人员开发一项以健康为导向的服务。
运用开放系统理论作为框架，分析通过访谈、员工调查和文件审查收集的数据中出现的组织和角色问题。分析内容归纳为五个主题问题：（1）项目愿景如何影响其发展？（2）领导力是如何发挥作用的，产生了什么效果？（3）员工面临哪些组织问题？（4）跨学科困境有哪些？（5）项目实施后有哪些制度建立或改变？
分析发现了一系列人际和组织困境，涉及组织环境的性质、跨学科工作的特点、领导力、团体成员的界限以及统一愿景的构建。
未来项目应将边界跨越者的实力和稳定性、资源背景以及新的和组织上有联系的单位统一愿景的作用视为促进和维持变革的关键问题。
