Rate Your Organization's High Performance Management. Complete a Virtual Climate Survey

Instructions:
For each of the following items, rank your organization on a scale of 1 - 10 (with 1 as low and 10 as high). Your answers automatically will be tallied and you will find your score at the completion of your survey.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People feel safe: secure that they will not be ridiculed, demeaned, humiliated, or punished for openness and honesty or for admitting "I made a mistake" or for saying "I don't know but I'll find out."
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People feel accepted: treated with courtesy, listened to, invited to express thoughts and feelings, dealt with as individuals whose dignity is important--treated, in effect, as volunteers.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People feel challenged: given assignments that excite, inspire, and test and stretch their abilities.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People feel recognized: acknowledged for individual talents and achievements, and rewarded monetarily and nonmonetarily for extraordinary contributions.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People receive constructive feedback: they hear how to improve performance in nondemanding ways that stress positives rather than negatives and that build on their strengths.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People see that innovation is expected of them: their opinions are solicited, their brainstorming is invited, and they see that the development of new and usable ideas is desired of them and welcomed.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People have easy access to information: not only are they given the information (and resources) they need to do their job properly, they are given information about the wider context of their work--the goals and progress of the company--so that they understand how their activities relate to the organization's overall mission.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People have authority appropriate to what they are accountable for: they are encouraged to take initiative, make decisions, exercise judgment.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People work with clear-cut and noncontradictory rules and guidelines: they are provided with a structure their intelligence can grasp and count on and they know what is expected of them.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People are encouraged (perhaps required) to solve as many of their own problems as possible: they are expected to resolve issues close to that action rather than pass responsibility for solutions to higher-ups, and they are empowered to do so--without power it is meaningless to talk about responsibility.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People see that their rewards for successes are far greater than any penalties for failures: in too many companies, where the penalties for mistakes are much greater than the rewards for success, people are afraid to take risks or express themselves.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People are encouraged and rewarded for learning: they are encouraged to participate in internal and external courses and programs that will expand their knowledge and skills.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People experience congruence between an organization's professed philosophy and the behavior of its leaders and managers: they see integrity exemplified and they feel motivated to match what they see.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People experience being treated fairly and justly: they feel their workplace is a rational world they can trust.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10		People are able to believe in and take pride in the value of what they produce: they perceive the result of their efforts as genuinely useful, and they perceive their work as worth doing.

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