Integrated Culture and Climate Measurement Scale
Platform: Diagnostic Hub
Category: Culture & Organisational Effectiveness
Implementation Level: Organisation
Definition
The integrated measurement of organisational culture (deeply held values and beliefs) and climate (perceived practices and behaviours), reflecting how employees experience and interpret the work environment across multiple dimensions of people, innovation, performance, and stability.
Factors
Organisational Culture
Organisational culture comprises the deeply held values, beliefs, and assumptions that shape long-term identity, priorities, and strategic direction.
Organisational Climate
Organisational climate reflects the perceived day-to-day practices, behaviours, and environment that make the culture tangible through collaboration, support, responsiveness, and accountability.
People Focus - Culture
Deep cultural belief that employee value, wellbeing, development, fairness, and supportive leadership define the organisation.
Innovation and Agility - Culture
Encouragement of new ideas, risk-taking, entrepreneurial mindset, and adaptive response to change.
Performance Orientation - Culture
Focus on results, productivity, client satisfaction, competitive awareness, and accountability.
Stability and Control - Culture
Deep, enduring cultural belief that structure, order, ethical conduct, consistency, and formal governance are central to organisational identity.
People Focus - Climate
Current perception of people-focus, support, fairness, and development experienced now.
Innovation and Agility - Climate
Current perception of innovation support, risk tolerance, and adaptability experienced today
Performance Orientation - Climate
Deep cultural belief that competitive results, productivity, client satisfaction, reputation, and achievement define success and identity
Stability and Control - Climate
Current shared perception of the level of stability, control, ethics, and structure experienced day-to-day
Instrumental Concerns - Culture
A deeply shared cultural preference for processes, mechanisms, structures, and activities (planning, communication, development, control, cohesion, flexibility) as core to the organisation’s identity, regardless of immediate results.
Consummatory Concerns - Culture
A deeply shared cultural belief about which final results (growth, quality, productivity, reputation, morale, profit, impact) are the ultimate proof of organisational worth and identity.
Instrumental Concerns - Climate
Employees' shared perceptions of the current emphasis placed on processes, structures, and support mechanisms (training, communication, role clarity, control systems, flexibility).
Consummatory Concerns - Climate
Employees' shared perceptions of the current level of success in delivering final outcomes (productivity, growth, quality, customer satisfaction, morale, external reputation).