Machado Stephanie S, Brewster Amanda L, Shapiro Valerie B, Ritchie Lorrene D, Magee Kiran S, Madsen Kristine A
Department of Public Health and Health Services Administration, California State University, Chico, CA; Stephanie Machado was at UC Berkeley in the School of Public Health during the study..
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
J Nutr Educ Behav. 2022 Jan;54(1):56-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2021.08.011. Epub 2021 Oct 31.
This paper identifies implementation leadership characteristics in the school nutrition setting and places findings in the context of implementation leadership literature.
Fourteen interviews were conducted with school district leadership/staff in an urban school district. Modified grounded theory was employed.
Four themes emerged: (1) understanding of technical/operational intervention details; (2) ability to proactively develop and communicate plans; (3) supervisory oversight; and (4) intervention framing. Themes were consistent with 4 of the 5 dimensions comprising the Implementation Leadership Scale: knowledgeable, proactive, perseverant, and distributed leadership. The supportive domain was not a major finding. An additional domain, how leaders message the intervention to staff, was identified.
Implementation leadership in school nutrition appears similar, but not identical, to leader behaviors present in the Implementation Leadership Scale. School nutrition leaders might consider involving staff early in implementation planning, incorporating technical expertise, and clearly communicating the intervention purpose to support successful implementation. Future research might explore the interplay between leadership and implementation outcomes.
本文确定学校营养环境中的实施领导力特征，并将研究结果置于实施领导力文献的背景下。
对一个城市学区的学区领导/工作人员进行了14次访谈。采用了修正的扎根理论。
出现了四个主题：（1）对技术/操作干预细节的理解；（2）积极制定和传达计划的能力；（3）监督管理；（4）干预框架。这些主题与构成实施领导力量表的五个维度中的四个一致：知识渊博、积极主动、坚持不懈和分布式领导。支持领域不是主要发现。确定了另一个领域，即领导者如何向工作人员传达干预措施。
学校营养中的实施领导力似乎与实施领导力量表中呈现的领导行为相似，但不完全相同。学校营养领导者可能会考虑在实施计划的早期就让工作人员参与进来，纳入技术专长，并清晰地传达干预目的，以支持成功实施。未来的研究可能会探索领导力与实施结果之间的相互作用。
