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Climate Assessment
The Climate of your Organization is the State of its Health
How your employees feel about their jobs, their supervisors, their peers, top management, and many other factors affects their individual productivity, and collectively the ability of the organization to achieve its objectives.
Without a formal process, finding out about employee attitudes usually relies on the manager's instincts or the employee's own willingness to communicate upward. But managerial instinct rarely provides the kind of hard data needed for decision-making. And most employees are hesitant to communicate anything but positive information to their supervisors.
The formal process generally involves using a climate survey or questionnaire, and you have probably learned that there are lots of them out there.
A Climate Survey Using the Scaled Comparison is different from traditional climate surveys in the following ways:
- A "custom" study at an "off-the-shelf" price - In our view, a customized survey is not the "luxury version" of a regular climate survey, to be applied if your budget permits. Rather, it is the best way to ensure that the organization will obtain the right diagnosis to support the decisions that it must make.
- You get priorities, not preferences - Surveys that use "agree/disagree" scales will not give you a consensus on priorities for action. They won't tell you what trade-offs people will support, nor the trade-offs they will oppose.
- The organization defines its own "Ideal" - Climate Assessment using the Scaled Comparison permits the organization to compare its current state with an "ideal" defined by the organization, not by a consultant or by prevailing management fashion. Climate Assessment should not require the organization to value any particular philosophy (participative or directive) in defining its culture and climate.
- You get a consensus, not an average - A consensus is what you would expect to emerge from face-to-face interactions between disagreeing people trying to reach a workable solution that is acceptable to everyone. You don't reach a consensus with a simple numerical average of checkmarks.
- Large numbers of Climate Issues - Conventional methods become cumbersome if they attempt to study more than a handful of key Climate Issues, especially from more than a single perspective. With no significant increase in respondent time or effort, a large number issues can be studied using the Scaled Comparison.
- Small subgroups - Most surveying techniques require that groups or subgroups have at least 20 to 30 subjects in them. With the Scaled Comparison, subgroups as small as 10 or 15 people may be studied. This permits the delineation of viewpoints in and between small, but important decision-making groups.
- You can administer your Climate Assessment Online. Or deploy it as a traditional paper and pencil questionnaire, and we do the printing, duplication and data processing.
 Climate Assessment is deployable online or in paper and pencil format.
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