Assess Your Organizational Culture with These 10 Questions

Organizational culture is something I’ve blogged about, and spoken about, many times before. What I’ve found is that most business owners and HR professionals are keenly aware of the fact that they have an organizational culture, and that it impacts the engagement, creativity, and productivity of their team.

What’s difficult sometimes is defining your organizational culture, putting a finger on what makes it distinct. In this post, I’m going to offer 10 simple questions you can ask yourself to size up your company’s organizational culture. Of course, this is a very qualitative rather than quantitative approach, and I’d also recommend looking into some more metric-driven approaches to measuring your culture.

With that said, I think this quick questionnaire can be vital for just getting you started in thinking critically about what your organizational culture is and how it might be improved.

What is Organizational Culture?

Before we get to the questions, let’s spend just a paragraph or so with a quick refresher: What is organizational culture, generally speaking?

One way to think about organizational culture is that it’s a summary of how people at your business interact with each other… and, how they interact with clients and…