Culture and Climate Audits 

Connemara has considerable experience in designing specific interventions for clients, particularly when they undergo organisational change. One such intervention is a Culture and Climate Audit, which refers to internal research processes that are aimed at providing executives with information on which to base the implementation of their business objectives.

A comprehensive, scientific process using a range of tools is used to measure:

• Climate - the level of employee engagement at a point in time.
• Culture - the beliefs, behaviours, attitudes, values and customs that people perceive or experience in an organisation and their impact.

Research methodologies are selected according to the nature and scope of the project. The approach may include one-on-one interviews, focus groups, questionnaires and online engagements.

Examples of aspects that could be polled include:

• What people perceive the culture to be and how they relate to the perceived culture
• What people believe the culture should be in order to best support strategic objectives
• Areas of concern related to culture
• Corporate health checks to determine how people feel towards an organisation and its leadership
• Research that evaluates people’s loyalty and level of work satisfaction
• Research that identifies how people rate a company as an employer

We have extensive experience in the Edgar H Schein culture diagnosis methodology and base engagements on this methodology.

Based on the degree to which culture is visible to observers, it can be analysed at three different levels:

• Artifacts – visible organisational structures and processes
• Espoused value – strategies, goals, philosophies
• Basic Underlying Assumptions – unconscious, taken for granted beliefs, perceptions, thoughts

This provides a neutral, clinical, balanced and holistic reflection of the voice of your employees, which is captured in a pre-agreed time span. Surveys of this nature often provide hard-hitting feedback on previously unrecognised views.