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What’s Your Organization’s Cultural Profile?

por Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, J. Yo-Jud Cheng

What’s Your Organization’s Cultural Profile?

Before you begin an initiative to shape your organization’s culture, it’s important to explore where it is today. This survey, broken into two parts, can help you formulate a preliminary understanding of your culture and get the conversation started.

The first part provides a simplified exploration of which two cultural styles your organization leans toward (out of eight total) and what this means. Ask a colleague to complete the survey as well, and then talk about your answers to delve deeper.

The second part can help you take stock of how prominent a role culture plays in your organization, and lets you compare your answers to those from other HBR readers. It also asks a series of demographic questions to help us learn more about how culture operates within organizations.

[Note: In part one of the assessment, you can only use each ranking (1-8) once.]