Organisational culture (also referred to as company culture) is a critical component of any well-run business. It is a foundation that encompasses the shared values, beliefs, and assumptions that guide how members of the organisation approach their work and interact with each other.
A company’s culture isn’t just a mission statement or goal. It’s not something that can be easily summarised in a press release or policy document, but is rather the actual behaviours and consistent efforts that are actioned within the company.
As such, culture can change over time, and these changes can be positive or negative. A consistent, healthy and committed effort to standing behind shared values and beliefs that strengthen the company for all is imperative.
One way of making sure you’re truly committing to a healthy organisational culture is to survey those who work and interact with your company.
This survey allows you to gain insights from your employees, board members, and volunteers as to what they perceive your organisational culture to be and how well you’re committing to the aspirations of that culture.
It can cover various facets of your organisation, from its leadership and history to how frontline employees interact and even how the company’s culture is perceived from the outside (e.g. what do customers think the business’s culture is?).
The key purpose of the organisational culture survey is to see what your intended culture is and how that stacks up against the actual culture it has.
With the insights you gain, you can then implement actionable steps to be more closely aligned with your idealised organisational culture. Given how important a company’s culture is to its overall employee satisfaction and success, it’s something worth assessing from time to time.
At Your Say, we develop our surveys to focus on the key areas you want addressed. Given that culture influences every part of an organisation, a wide range of questions and scaled feedback requests can be put forward to help you gauge how well-developed your culture is. Some questions that could be included in an organisational culture survey are:Â
Questions such as these provide employees and other members of the organisation a simple means of providing candid anonymous feedback that empowers you to make informed improvements. And doing so is just another way in which you help foster a more honest and postive culture within your organisation.
Want to run an Organisational Culture Survey for your company and find out what’s working and what can be improved upon? Get started today by contacting us.
The Your Say team has decades of collective experience in helping companies improve their culture through data-rich surveys, enabling them to develop a more driven and respectful workplace that improves the well-being of all who work there.
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