According to the CIPD definition, the purpose of organisation development is to take ‘a planned and systematic approach to enabling sustained organisation performance through the involvement of its people’. To this end organisation development focuses on making interventions and driving improvements to organisational success by facilitating the ways in which employees – individuals, groups, and teams, are motivated to perform and are rewarded for performance; are involved in the business decision making processes; interact with, and relate to each other; acquire and develop knowledge, experience and skills in the context of rapidly changing organisational environments. This unit provides a good foundation of underpinning organisation development theory and knowledge, including its relationship to organisation design and change management, and how effective organisation development interventions can increase business performance and productivity.

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1. UNDERSTAND THE UNDERPINNING HISTORY, THEORIES, AND PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT.

2. UNDERSTAND THE ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.

3. UNDERSTAND VARIOUS ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES, MODELS, AND APPROACHES.

4. UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS TO BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY.