Table 1 Original 16 NPT toolkit items
Coherence | Collective Action | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Sub-construct | Original NPT toolkit item | Sub-construct | Original NPT toolkit item |
Differentiation: Whether the [intervention] is easy to describe to participants and whether they can appreciate how it differs or is clearly distinct from current ways of working. | Participants distinguish the intervention from current ways of working | Initiation: Whether or not key individuals are able and willing to get others involved in the new practice. | Key individuals drive the intervention forward |
Communal specification: Whether participants have or are able to build a shared understanding of the aims, objectives, and expected outcomes of the proposed [intervention]. | Participants collectively agree about the purpose of the intervention | Legitimation: Whether or not participants believe it is right for them to be involved, and that they can make a valid contribution | Participants agree that the intervention is a legitimate part of their work |
Individual specification: Whether individual participants have or are able to make sense of the work – specific tasks and responsibilities - the proposed [intervention] would create for them. | Participants individually understand what the intervention requires of them | Enrolment: The capacity and willingness of participants to organize themselves in order to collectively contribute to the work involved in the new practice. | Participants buy in to delivering the intervention |
Internalization: Whether participants have or are able to easily grasp the potential value, benefits and importance of the [intervention]. | Participants construct potential value of the intervention for them/their work | Activation: The capacity and willingness of participants to collectively define the actions and procedures needed to keep the new practice going. | Participants continue to support the intervention |
Cognitive Participation | Reflexive Monitoring | ||
Sub-construct | Original NPT toolkit item | Sub-construct | Original NPT toolkit item |
Interactional Workability: Whether people are able to enact the [intervention] and operationalise its components in practice | Participants perform the tasks required by the intervention | Systematization: Whether participants can determine how effective and useful the [intervention] is from the use of formal and/or informal evaluation methods | Participants access information about the effects of the intervention |
Relational Integration: Whether people maintain trust in the [intervention] and in each other. | Participants maintain their trust in each other’s work and expertise through the intervention | Communal appraisal: Whether, as a result of formal monitoring, participants collectively agree about the worth of the effects of the [intervention] | Participants collectively assess the intervention as worthwhile for others |
Skill set Workability: Whether the work required by the [intervention] is seen to be parcelled out to participants with the right mix of skills and training to do it | The work of the intervention is appropriately allocated to participants | Individual appraisal: Whether individuals involved with, or affected by, the [intervention], think it is worthwhile. | Participants individually assess the intervention as worthwhile for themselves |
Contextual Integration: Whether the [intervention] is supported by management and other stakeholders, policy, money and material resources. | The intervention is adequately supported by its host organization | Reconfiguration: Whether individuals or groups using the [intervention] can make changes as a result of individual and communal appraisal. | Participants modify their work in response to their appraisal of the intervention |