This paper introduces organizational development and describes its potential utility to the planning community. The paper first points out some current practices in educational planning that may violate principles of effective human behavior in educational organizations. The centralization of goal setting and decisionmaking and the failure to consider the motivational and political implications of information are examples of such violations. The paper then describes organizational development and concludes with an outline on how and where organizational development methods can be used in conjunction with educational planning. (JF)