360 Feedback Profiles Organization's Values

Measure Transmission of Values with 360 Feedback

Mission, vision, and values statements provide the starting point for mission alignment profiles. The objective of these is to ensure that the stated values are actually being embraced and practiced by all levels of an organization. Are the stated values being embraced by the organization's culture?

Two survey approaches can be used for mission alignment:

1. Values-based 360 feedback for managers and executives:

A good choice when you suspect that individual managers are blocking progress.

2. A general employee survey:

A good choice for researching the extent to which employees can observe the mission, vision, and values in actual daily practice at all levels of the organization's culture.

Either way, these questionnaires are structured around behaviors, which are observable and can be influenced by training.

A sample statement might be: "The management of this organization encourages innovative thinking."

These questionnaires are typically structured so that high scores reflect behavior consistent with the stated mission or values, and low scores reflect inconsistency. Group composites, showing how well groups of employees actually "live the values" are very useful springboards for training and executive discussion.