Denison Organizational Culture Survey

“LSA’s comprehensive analysis of our current culture vis-à-vis our key strategic growth objectives using the Denison Organizational Culture Survey enabled us to take practical actions and make relevant changes to our culture.

Thank you for helping us to align our strategy and our culture to drive growth.”

Janice Passarello | VP Human Resources | Immersion Corporation

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey is rooted in research linking organizational culture and leadership to bottom-line business performance. The cultural diagnostic technology is supported by a world-class electronic delivery system.

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey and Denison Leadership Development Survey were developed by Daniel R. Denison, Ph.D. and William S. Neale, M.A., M.L.I.R.

The surveys and model are based on over 20 years of research by Dr. Denison on the link between organization culture and bottom-line performance measures such as ROI, ROA, Sales Growth, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction.

The Denison Model is made up of four culture traits. All are validated and benchmarked items.

Mission: Does the company know where it is going?
Consistency: Can the company execute and create leverage?
Involvement: Are people aligned and engaged?
Adaptability: Is the company listening to the external marketplace?

Additionally Available Assessment Components with Validated and Benchmarked Items

Employee Engagement
Understand your employees’ current engagement and how to shape your culture to increase their engagement into the future.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
How effectively your organization fosters diversity and inclusion to make certain that all types of people are included in a supportive work environment.
Organizational Innovation
Assess the values and behaviors that are important to facilitating innovation by measuring your capacity to generate and make productive use of new ideas.
Organizational Trust
Assess your organization’s level of cultural trust including the belief that co-workers have positive motives and intentions, that others can be relied upon, and that the organization acts with honesty and integrity.
Risk Management
Measures the effectiveness of organizational risk management practices using employee perceptions of key proactive and reactive aspects of and aligned risk culture.
Safety Management
Measures how your organization supports safe behaviors and work practices while providing additional insight into other centrally-related components of safety management.

Denison Organizational Culture Survey: Measure and Improve Workplace Performance

Unlike traditional employee engagement assessments, corporate culture surveys, or climate surveys, the Denison Organizational Culture Survey looks at the culture of an organization as a whole and ties culture to bottom-line performance measures.

Repeated use of Corporate Culture Surveys provide a measure of the organization’s progress toward achieving a high-performance culture with optimum overall performance.

The Denison Leadership Development Survey is a 360 degree assessment designed to benchmark an individual’s leadership and management skills with leaders in other organizations.

The assessment allows leaders to link leadership development and organizational culture to tangible bottom-line performance measures.

Together, these research-based, user-friendly surveys allow organizations to align culture and leadership, diagnose specific areas of strength and weakness, and build accountability into the development process – all helping you reach your goal of a high-performing organization.

Go to LSA Denison Culture Survey Model to download an overview of the culture model and an example from a company’s results.

Please contact us to learn how our leadership development programs have helped leading organizations create a strategic advantage.

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LSA partnered with us to create an innovative solution on very short notice and added a huge amount of value.

We could never have done it without their unmatched combination of expertise, professionalism, and creativity that aligned everything with our unique culture and growth strategy.

Even our executives and experienced hires were blown away!

Brenda Wagner
Founder and President

We looked to LSA Global as a consulting partner to help us explore innovative and scholarly approaches to promote employee engagement and sustain the unique high performance culture we’ve built over the last decade. LSA helped us perpetuate coaching as a discipline across the organization by integrating our core values, goal setting, and performance management.

We appreciate LSA’s commitment to cutting-edge practices to help keep us a step ahead during this time of rapid change.

Rosalyn Chan
Vice President, Human Resources

You have become our premier change leadership strategic partner. Your expertise in the human side of change is unparalleled and enabled our company to successfully implement our ERP Solution under challenging and ever-changing circumstances.

Thank you for your practical and outcome-oriented approach.

Ted Ramlet
CIO & SVP

The LSA customized Organizational Alignment Survey gave us a comprehensive view of how our employees experience our culture, talent, and strategy.

The systemic approach provided us with a great forum to discuss the strengths and opportunities in our organization, and then to quickly get focused on the key actions critical to executing our business and people strategies.

Mark Forrest
General Manager, FSM Division

I can’t emphasize enough what a huge shift you helped to create for us as an organization. Thanks again for your change management consulting help and guidance.

The clarity, practicality, focus, and accountability are exactly what we needed to make this strategy and major transformation a success from a hearts and minds perspective.

Cris Alvarez
VP Corporate Strategy

It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and Director

Thanks a million for the great strategy and cultural alignment session for our global leadership team.

Your experience and patience to expertly deal with the inherent and complex challenges between business units uncovered many hidden truths that created a great roadmap for us to move forward as a unified leadership team.

I recommend LSA to any leader looking to shape and align organizational culture.

Juan Plaza
Geospatial Sales Manager, Latin America

LSA Global really shifted our perspective about strategic clarity and organizational culture.

The 3 C’s approach to workplace culture is very practical and really helps executive teams — even skeptical ones — ensure that your culture is healthy, high performing, and aligned.

Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
Chief Human Resources Officer

We highly value the relationship we have with LSA Global.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone who is looking to strategically, practically, and fundamentally improve individual and organizational effectiveness in a way that makes sense for their unique culture and strategy.

Laura Dominguez
Director of Human Resources

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

FAQs

Unlike traditional engagement or climate surveys that focus primarily on employee sentiment, the Denison Organizational Culture Survey evaluates the organization’s culture as a whole and directly connects culture to measurable business outcomes such as growth, profitability, quality, customer satisfaction, and employee retention. The model is grounded in decades of research linking culture to performance.

The survey measures four critical cultural traits associated with high-performing organizations: Mission, Consistency, Involvement, and Adaptability. Together, these dimensions help leaders understand whether employees are aligned around strategy, empowered to contribute, capable of execution, and responsive to changing market conditions.

The assessment helps organizations identify cultural strengths and barriers that impact execution and results. By benchmarking culture against validated research and industry norms, leadership teams can prioritize targeted actions that improve alignment, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and overall organizational effectiveness.

Yes. In addition to the core culture assessment, organizations can incorporate specialized modules focused on areas such as employee engagement, innovation, trust, diversity and inclusion, risk management, and safety culture. This allows leaders to align the assessment with strategic priorities and business objectives.

The survey is designed for executive teams, business leaders, and HR professionals who want to align culture with strategy and create sustainable performance improvements. It is especially valuable during periods of growth, transformation, mergers, leadership change, or strategic realignment when culture can either accelerate or hinder execution.