Culture Surveys

Culture surveys are becoming increasingly popular.

Organisational culture can be described as the rules and behaviours that govern the workplace. Some aspects of culture are therefore explicit, such as rules. Others, such as patterns and styles of behaviour are less explicit but just as powerful.

The purpose of a culture survey is to measure how closely the prevailing culture of the organisation compares with the culture that the organisation desires. Does the culture support the mission and values? To illustrate if your values are tolerance, openness and team working, do your rules, processes and dominant behaviours support these values?

To begin we meet with senior management to understand (or develop if required) a statement of desired culture. We use scales to plot a range of values and behaviours that describe the culture the organisation desires. Using a carefully designed question set we ask employees what their experiences are of these values and behaviours.

Once the culture survey has been completed we work with you on any issues where the culture is out of line with you mission and values. This is a powerful process that is quick and easy to implement and gets straight to the heart of cultural issues wherever they exist.