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<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Esther,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Complex question. You have no
doubt experienced that "creating a survey" is not for the faint of heart. There
are several websites that can provide insight into this process,
surverycentral.com is one such. There are, of course, numerous sites that will
"sell" you their solution. Here you can just type "cultural survey" into yahoo,
google or copernic and pick your poison. The Denison website is one of the
better in this category. More problematically, is what you actually intend to do
with your "results." As socially constructed "realities," cultures (reified
entities) can never be directly addressed. One of the best indirect approaches,
in my personal experience, is Balanced Scorecard. Its expensive
to accomplish comprehensively and pointless to undertake unless senior
leadership is committed in advance to actually use the data generated. I suppose
I should also point out that, again in my experience, OST is the shortest
distance between two points because the very process (using OST) is inherently
"culture transformative" and surveys at that point (post event) merely confirm
what is already obvious, that behavior has changed. Typically I find myself
running way too hard to keep up with all the transformation to have time to
document the effect. Best of luck in your endeavor.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Will</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>William. O. Welsh
III</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Strategic Development
Advisor</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Northrop Grumman Mission
Systems</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Joint Warfighting
Center</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>United States Joint Forces
Command</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=942144714-16072005><FONT size=4>Suffolk/Norfolk
Virginia</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Esther
Ewing<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 16, 2005 9:18 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Culture
survey<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial size=4>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear all:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I wondered if anyone can help me. I have a client with whom
I am engaged in an exercise in making a culture change. We want to create a
survey that allows their people to rate their organization on a number of
continua. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Picture, for example, a scale which goes from one to five
where one is "shares information openly" and five is "information is shared on
a need-to-know basis". </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>What I need to do is to measure the major continua that we
would ask people to rate the organization. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I could really use some suggestions for this and/or examples
of culture surveys. I would be glad to compile them and give the results to
anyone who would like to have them (assuming that the donor was comfortable
with that).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Can you help me?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Esther</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=4 PTSIZE="14" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><B>Esther
Ewing<BR>The Change Alliance - Building Organizational Capability<BR>330 East
38th St., Suite 53K<BR>New York, New York 10016, USA<BR><BR>Phone:
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