New ATD book introduces a new science-based framework that can be used to maximize the likelihood of sustained individual learning in an organizational context, thus contributing to higher performance and better business results in the workplace
Janet Ahn, Jon Thompson, and Mary Slaughter, authors of Learning That CLICS: Using Behavioral Science for Effective Design, share some insights about the book and its model below.
Report lays out new tools for helping governments reform, fight corruption, and better respond to citizens
December 11, 2020 In view of underperforming and costly efforts to improve public service delivery across most of the world, ideas42 and The Asia Foundation today released a new report,
Official Action: A Roadmap for Using Behavioral Science in Public Administration Reform. The insights in Official Action combine more than a decade of experience applying behavioral science to public policy with a deepening but still relatively new scientific literature.
Complexity is at the heart of public service reform. Such systems are characterized by being underbudgeted, limited by difficult power balances that don’t always lend themselves toward collaboration, hierarchical performance systems that serve the present not future, interagency territorial barriers to cooperation, among other issues. In the limited space for feasible reform within this complexity, behavior change may be