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Workshop

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BACB & PSY CE

5/27/2005

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Williford A (3rd floor)

CE Instructor: Weinberg, Ph.D., BCBA

Using Organizational Behavior Management Approaches in Human

Services Settings

ph Cautilli (Children's Crisis Treatment Center) and

MICHAEL WEINBERG Ph.D., BCBA (Southbury Training School)

Description: This workshop will provide a theoretical

framework for utilizing behavior analysis principles of

organizational behavior management, combining it with methods

from Quality Management and statistical process control as

applied to human services provider organizations (Hantula,

1995; Babcock, Fleming & Oliver, 1999). Organizational

management and human resources (HR) applications are a

growing area for behavior analysts, who have the unique

skills and experience to utilize principles of behavior

analysis to improve processes and functions in human services

organizations. One particular area of interest for behavioral

practitioners will be organizational behavior management

(OBM). OBM conceptualizes and empirically solves

organizational problems.

This workshop will provide participants with the concepts and

knowledge to increase their potential for professional

behavioral consultation to human services organizations.

Operation issues plague most mental health and service

industry professions. It is our experience that

organizational behavior management has much to offer

traditional operations in job design, analysis, and HR

management. In addition, OBM readily lends itself to improve

the quality of treatment services in human service

organizations that provide services to people with mental

retardation, developmental disabilities, autism, and

emotional/behavioral disorders. This presentation will

focuses on applying the basics of OBM to the development of

successful service operations, and provide data from a

demonstration research project conducted in a residential

treatment facility serving these populations. Management

involves the acquisition and use of resources. OBM redefines

management from control of the person to control of the

context/environment in which the person works. It has

developed powerful techniques for a range of management

areas, and can be used to improve the integrity and quality

of treatment approaches being used in a human service

organization. (Cautilli & e, BAT, 2000, Weinberg et.

al., BAT, 2001).

Objectives: At the completion of the workshop, participants

will be able to:

· Develop management by team objective programs.

· Analyze performance problems from a traditional

operations perspective.

· Identify ways that OBM can enhance this approach.

· Understand operations and HR approaches to enhance

employee performance, and to achieve a company's strategic

goals.

· Use OBM in operations to enhance treatment integrity.

· Use statistical process control to determine when to

intervene. (P Chart)

· Set up functionally based programs with the

supervision of all staff as the cornerstone.

· Set up benchmarks and define outcomes for successful

interventions.

· Understand the essential skills of an effective

manager.

· Understand key skills to devise performance

objectives linked to evaluation, mission of the organization,

and performance-contingent salary increases.

Activities: Participants will work in breakout groups to

devise performance objectives for professionals and staff

linked to the organization’s missionl; participants will

practice use of various organizational assessment instruments

in evaluating their own or hypothetical human services

agencies.

Audience: Behavior analysts, human resources professionals,

program directors or administrators of human services

organizations, OBM professionals, and students in OBM track

programs.

Level: Intermediate

Member: $130 Non-member: $145

After 3/11 Member: $155 Non-member: $170