- Specialist area within HR - Sometimes linked with 'training'. Changing and improving the people and what they do. - Making change and improving an organisation's capacity for change. - Overlaps with [[Organisation Design]]. ### Beckhard (2006) definition Organisation development is an effort that is; 1) organisation-wide, 2) managed from the top, to 3) increase organization effectiveness and health through 4) planned interventions in the organisation’s “processes,” 5) using behavioural-science knowledge. ## Background - Nurturing approach, sometimes referred to as co-creation. Normative approach 1. Programme-procedure approach ([[Beckhard model]]) 2. Systems-Process approach ([[Burke-Litwin Model]]) 3. Hybrid approach