Normalization Process Theory Constructs
| Coherence (Sense-Making Work)a | Cognitive Participation (Relationship Work)b | Collective Action (Enacting Work)c | Reflexive Monitoring (Appraisal Work)d |
|---|---|---|---|
| a Investing in making tasks meaningful. | |||
| b Investing personal and interpersonal commitment to tasks. | |||
| c Investing effort and resources in tasks. | |||
| d Investing in comprehending. | |||
| Differentiation: Defining, dividing up, and categorizing task | Enrollment: recruiting the self and others to tasks | Skill set workability: allocating tasks and performances | Reconfiguration: changing tasks |
| Communal specification: making sense of shared versions of tasks | Activation: organizing a shared contribution to tasks | Contextual integration: supporting and resourcing tasks in their social contexts | Communal appraisal: shared evaluation of contributions and tasks |
| Individual specification: making sense of personal versions of tasks | Initiation: organizing an individual contribution to tasks | Interactional workability: doing tasks, and making outcomes, in practice | Individual appraisal: individual evaluation of contributions and tasks |
| Internalization: learning how to do tasks in context | Legitimation: making tasks the right thing to do | Relational integration: making and communicating reliable knowledge about tasks | Systematization: organizing a reliable stock of knowledge about tasks |