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A cultural analysis is a study of the values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices within an organization. It can provide valuable insights on employee behavior and organizational dynamics, as well as qualities that indicate success within your organization.
This guide explains how a cultural analysis works, its benefits, and why an organization might conduct one.
The goal of a cultural analysis is to define an organization’s culture and understand what makes employees successful within that culture. To accomplish this, the vendor conducting the analysis needs to collect, analyze, and interpret the relevant data. Relevant data can include personality and aptitude information for each employee, employee effectiveness ratings, desired employee competencies, and organizational values.
To collect this data, the vendor conducting the analysis can utilize assessments, surveys, and employee interviews. The goal at this stage is to identify the most common traits within the organization.
To analyze the data, the vendor will compare employee traits and measure them against employee effectiveness. The goal of this is to identify traits that indicate employee success, as well as traits that may indicate an employee will struggle.
When the vendor completes their analysis, they’ll return their interpreted findings and help with further application of the results.
The results can be used to support recruiting, selection, onboarding, training, development, and performance evaluation.
Cultural analyses are an important tool for organizations with distinct traits, values, behaviors, or competencies that indicate success. A cultural analysis can provide a wide variety of actionable insights and needs to be conducted by an experienced vendor. Organizations that complete a cultural analysis can find long-term benefits from the information gleaned.
HighMatch Culture Fit capability helps identify the core competencies that lead to success in your organization and then applies those insights to your screening, selection, and development processes.
Led by a team of I-O psychologists according to the latest standards, this capability helps identify candidates likely to be productive and stay longer in your organization.
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Our team of experienced workplace psychologists use proven techniques based on decades of research to identify those core competencies that lead to organizational success.
Insights from a Cultural Analysis can be used in multiple ways, from screening applicants, interviewing for cultural fit to facilitating employee coaching and development.
Getting insights into the qualities that are predictive of success at your company can help inform hiring and succession planning, and support training and development.
