Denison Organizational Culture Survey

Introduction

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey, or the DOCS, uses the Denison Model to link your organization's culture to bottom-line results. It provides a measure of the organization's progress toward achieving a high-performance culture and optimum results. The DOCS and related reports are written in the organizational language, making them powerful and user-friendly tools.

The DOCS is a 60-item survey developed by Daniel R. Denison and William S. Neale, M.A., M.I.L.R., that measures the specific aspects of an organization's culture based on the four traits and twelve management practices of the Denison Model. Individual surveys are collectively tabulated into a graphical profile that compares the organization's culture to global normative database of 1076 higher and lower-performing organizations.

Change Monitor

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey: Change Monitor is an instrument that is utilized in conjunction with the Denison Organizational Culture Survey. Implemented after the debriefing of the Organizational Culture Survey results, the Culture Change Monitor allows the organization to select two indices to work on in the short-term. The Culture Change Monitor then monitors the organization's progress at 100-day intervals using a second shorter survey of 10 questions to measure the change in the two selected indices since the initial debriefing. Using the Culture Change Monitor promotes accountability and ensures that the organization follows through with its action plans. It also helps the organization test the effectiveness of its change initiative.

Action Planner

Now more than ever, organizations are looking to improve their performance. Organizations understand that they need to take action to see meaningful change. To do that successfully, organizations and change leaders need tools to help them effectively organize and manage their initiatives and action plans to keep them on the right track.

The Denison Action Planner is designed to help you translate your Denison survey results into action by ensuring that the important aspects of your change process can be easily organized, tracked and summarized at any level of the organization.

Flexible Tool Adapts to Your Action Planning Process

Action planning is the process that guides your day-to-day activities to help you reach your strategic goals. We recognize that there are many different processes and strategies that organizations use and we've built a tool flexible enough to adapt to your needs. The Denison Action Planner allows you to:

• Adapt the tool to your organization's action planning process
• Create workspaces and action plans for any level or function of the organization
• Describe your goals for each action plan
• Track and log discussion points and progress along the way
• Assign team members and due dates for each action item to increase your team's accountability
• Tag workspaces, discussions and action items for easy tracking and reporting

Content Modules

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey: Content Modules are instruments that can be added to the Organizational Culture Survey. The modules are brief, containing five to seven items, and can help you gain more information from your culture survey efforts. Key features include:

• Brief, reliable, and valid measures
• Benchmarked against a database of organizations
• Strengthen the value of information from the culture survey

Engagement Module

How do your employees feel about their work? Are they putting forth the extra effort to make your organization successful? This module can help you understand the impact that your culture has on your employees' attitudes toward their job and organization.

Additional Modules

Denison Consulting is continually developing and testing Content Modules. The current Content Modules in pilot testing are:

• Innovation: Innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas.
• Trust: Central to trust are the ideas of honesty, openness, and integrity as well as compassion or benevolence.

Price

Our consulting services are $250.00/hour*. Volume discounts may apply based on standing offers (e.g. MSO), or for first-time clients and larger consulting projects.

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