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The meta-volition model: Organizational leadership is the key ingredient in getting society moving, literally!
Authors:Antronette K Yancey  
Institution:aDepartment of Health Services, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, Center for Health Policy Research, and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, UCLA School of Public Health, 31-235 CHS, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Abstract:This paper argues that substantive and sustainable population-wide improvements in physical activity can be achieved only through the large scale adoption and implementation of policies and practices that make being active the default choice and remaining inactive difficult. Meta-volition refers to the volition and collective agency of early adopter leaders who implement such changes in their own organizations to drive productivity and health improvements. Leaders, themselves, are motivated by strong incentives to accomplish their organizational missions. The meta-volition model (MVM) specifies a cascade of changes that may be sparked by structural integration of brief activity bouts into organizational routine across sectors and types of organizations. MVM builds upon inter-disciplinary social ecological change models and frameworks such as diffusion of innovations, social learning and social marketing. MVM is dynamic rather than static, integrating biological influences with psychological factors, and socio-cultural influences with organizational processes. The model proposes six levels of dissemination triggered by organizational marketing to early adopter leaders carried out by “sparkplugs,” boisterous leaders in population physical activity promotion: initiating (leader–leader), catalyzing (organizational–individual), viral marketing (individual–organizational), accelerating (organizational–organizational), anchoring (organizational–community) and institutionalizing (community–individual). MVM embodies public–private partnership principles, a collective investment in the high cost of achieving and maintaining active lifestyles.
Keywords:Physical activity  Exercise  Diffusion  Dissemination  Implementation research  Motivation  Fitness  Gender  Ethnic minority  African American  Black  Latino  Disparities
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