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Cultural Assessment
Cultural Assessment
Your organizational culture is a reflection of the deeply rooted beliefs, values and norms that are shared by your leaders, managers and employees. Oftentimes, these beliefs and values are not readily visible. Many organizations have a perception of what their organizational culture is, however in reality that culture may be entirely different. Knowing what kind of organizational culture you have is critical to ensuring you are actually who you want to be.
Our Cultural Assessment services can provide you with a detailed analysis of how your desired competencies for success are matched against an assessment of your existing culture. Conducting a gap analysis can enable your organization to develop an action plan ranging from leadership and/or managerial development to broader system changes to enhance your ability to meet your strategic objectives.
Some of the benefits of getting a Cultural Assessment done on your company are:
Fit of New Hires with your Organizational Culture
- If you’ve experienced transition issues in the past with bringing new hires into your organization, you are most likely very aware of the associated costs of those issues becoming setbacks or serious problems. Regardless of whether you are hiring one key manager or huge numbers of new employees at a rapid pace, it is important that you hire people that either fit into your current culture or the new culture you are looking to create.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Merging two organizational cultures into one is a challenging process even when both organizations are in optimum condition. However, merging two cultures with each having their own separate challenges is another thing altogether.
Companies are continuing to merge and acquire each other like never before. According to a report issued by Mercer Consulting that analyzed 340 mergers during the past decade, 57% of the acquiring companies produced poor returns for the three year period after the deal was consummated, compared with other companies in their industry.
It is important to note that many of these acquisitions erode shareholder value rather than build it up due to not being able to win the support of customers and employees after the merger. Understanding these cultures prior to merging them is paramount to getting employees working together quickly and ensuring that productivity goes uninterrupted.
Just as in the case of a marriage ending in divorce when two people with differing values and beliefs realize that they can no longer peacefully co-habitate together – organizations are no different. That’s why many companies include cultural assessments as a key element of their due diligence process to ensure that any cultural differences can be successfully managed after the merger becomes reality.
QualiFind can employ resources and leverage our key industry expertise to create a comprehensive and in depth assessment of your organizational culture. Our analysis will show you how strong and cohesive your culture is as well as reflect the sources of your organization’s values and beliefs. Our analysis will provide your company with a road map to showing you how easily your culture can be changed or incorporated into another existing culture.
Should you have interest in a Cultural Assessment of your organization, please contact Warren Carter at (619) 921-1795 for additional information.
COO to a $450M manufacturer and distributor of specialized equipment for processing grain and livestock feed. Versatile leader of as many as 1,200 employees with a successful track record of integrating a $50M acquisition and positioning another company to be acquired...
Successful leader of a foreign-owned multi-site bio-fuels production organization with $170M in sales. Undergrad in science discipline and an MBA combined with diverse early career experience in ethanol and bio-diesel production have provided a foundation for success within a challenging industry.
