DDI Organizational Culture Assessment 4

Question 1

In a DDI culture assessment project, which group's responses are weighted most heavily when assessing the 'current culture' baseline?

Accepted Answer

Frontline employees, because they directly experience the day-to-day culture

Answer

DDI emphasizes that frontline employees are the most accurate reporters of the lived, enacted culture because they experience its day-to-day realities directly.

Question 2

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates a 'passive-defensive' culture in action?

Accepted Answer

Employees always wait for explicit approval before acting, even on routine tasks

Answer

Waiting for explicit approval on routine matters is a classic passive-defensive behavior driven by norms of dependence and risk avoidance.

Question 3

DDI's culture assessment framework identifies 'ideal culture' through which primary method?

Accepted Answer

Asking organizational members to rate the behaviors most needed for future success

Answer

DDI's approach to identifying ideal culture involves engaging organizational members to articulate the behavioral norms needed to achieve future strategic goals.

Question 4

A DDI practitioner finds that 'achievement' norms are high in the current culture but low in the ideal culture profile. What does this imply?

Accepted Answer

Organizational members believe less emphasis on personal achievement and more on collaboration will drive future success

Answer

When ideal scores for achievement fall below current scores, members are signaling that current over-emphasis on individual achievement may be at the expense of collaboration needed for strategic goals.

Question 5

Which DDI concept explains why culture change efforts often fail when only behaviors are targeted without addressing underlying values?

Accepted Answer

Culture iceberg effect

Answer

The culture iceberg effect describes how the visible behaviors rest on invisible values and assumptions; changing only behaviors without shifting underlying values produces temporary compliance, not lasting change.

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DDI Organizational Culture Assessment 4