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M Baizerman

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PubMed1977

Consultation as a political process.

Consultation may be viewed as a political-bargaining process in which actors seek to maximize at minimal cost expertise, organizational position, and organizational reputation. A view of consultation as political process allows for a shift in language in discussions of consultation. Such a language shift suggests shifts in the social meaning of the consulation process. Emphasis was placed on four suggested functions of consultation: definition and legitimation of a situation or of facts as "problematic"; raising the priority of an i5sue on the agenda of action in a consultee's agency; legitimation of deviant administrative behavior, and creation and sustenance of interagency linkages. A perspective is proposed that looks at the consequences as well as the intents of the process. This view of consultation can be studied emprically.

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Integrating theory and practice. Conceptual frameworks of the CEFP.

In this article, we describe how different conceptual frameworks contributed to the design, development, and implementation of the Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project (CEFP). These frameworks are the following: utilization-focused evaluation (Patton, 1997); evaluative inquiry for learning in organizations (Preskill & Torres, 1999); and collaboration for a change (Himmelman, 1994). In addition, we explain how The Program Evaluation Standards (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994) provided criteria for implementing and assessing the evaluation studies conducted through the CEFP. We conclude the article with examples of how the CEFP has changed the way American Cancer Society staff members and volunteers think about and conduct evaluations.

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Evaluation use and the CEFP. Lessons from a case study.

The Collaborative Evaluation Fellows Project was designed to build the evaluation capacity of the American Cancer Society and to produce evaluations that would be used in decision making on the local to national levels. Is this kind of use occurring and has use become a means of institutionalizing evaluation? Data from site visits to six regional offices suggest some use of findings occurring, while other data clearly indicate that an evaluation ethos and evaluation practice are both taking hold within the organization.

Cooperative Behavior↗