| Abstract | Ensuring that a new policy or therapy is implemented effectively and quickly is a major concern for organizations. Adoption is taking up the new policy and dissemination is the speed and spread of the new policy. The current study reviews how office culture and office communication impact adoption and dissemination, and whether communication mediates the relationship between office culture and adoption. Using the training of professionals in Tarrant County in the therapy TBRI (n = 24 organizations, 873 participants across organizations), office culture and office communication was measured as well as TBRI skill use at two time points. Using MPLUS and multilevel structural equation modeling, path models and a mediation model were tested to determine the impact of office culture and office communication on TBRI use by organizations. Results showed that communication did not mediate the relationship between culture and TBRI skills. Communication and culture were correlated and office culture alone could predict TBRI skill use at time two. The results show the importance of culture on policy adoption, and shows how closely tied together communication and office culture are to one another. |
