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Self Evaluation Paper

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Self-reports or self-evaluations are a well-known method of data collection in many of the social and behavioural sciences (Halverson et al., 2005; Aday and Cornelius, 2006). Whereby overt behaviours can be measured by more objective measures, self-reports may be one insight we have into the internal state of a person's thoughts and feelings as they solicit personal information about individual experience that is mainly subjective in nature. However, to date, the literature does not include self-evaluations aimed at understanding readiness for interprofessional collaboration and as such, organizations have not been able to use such a tool to assess whether individuals are ready and what may need to be done in order to help achieve readiness. Influencing Policy In order for organizations to adopt a Readiness to Collaborate Scale and then, in turn, pursue new strategies that will support or enable individual practitioners to better collaborate in an interprofessional team, implementers of organizational change and decision-makers are faced with two distinct outcomes. One, is the 'ideal situation' where policymakers and decision-makers can jointly identify the desirable future or condition of the organization and interprofessional team and then create the policies, take the actions to move forward …show more content…

However, in reality, many of these efforts do not result in the intended aims and do not foster sustained and positive change. Throughout the literature, it is cited that many factors contribute to the effectiveness within which such changes are implemented. One such factor is readiness for change (Armenakis et al., 1993; Tomblin Murphy et al., 2013; Strype et al., 2014; Van et al., 2014). Being ready for a change such as moving from siloed practice to interprofessional practice may improve the successful outcome of the

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