Tavistock Institute consultants devised an extended organisational development intervention that helped managers and staff to develop new roles for senior and middle managers and staff consistent with achieving their business goals and supporting the new organisational plan being implemented during 2006-2007.

Context

This independent public body went through a considerable period of change in 2005-06 and was set for abolition in the summer of 2007. Its budget had been cut resulting in a reorganisation of services and making a number of staff redundant.The Commission sponsored by the Department of Health went through a process of reorientation, changing hearts and minds and embedding new ways of working that were required for the ‘new’ organisation to be successful until its closure.

Methodology

Working together with senior management, the Tavistock Institute consultants devised an extended organisational development intervention that helped managers and staff to: 

• Develop new roles for senior and middle managers and staff consistent with achieving their business goals and supporting the new organisational plan being implemented during 2006-2007
• Increase the capability of management and staff to plan and implement changes and improvements as the organisation moved from a regional structure to a corporate one.