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Hi Linda - I am not sure what aspects of organizational culture you wish to measure. The Denison Consulting Group has a culture model and measure that focuses on the aspects of culture that their research suggests impact performance. Lisa Nishii developed a good measure of how inclusive an organization or team is, which is another important aspect of culture (56 AMJ 6, 2013, pp 1754-74. Phillippe Rosinski built another model more closely tied to the Hofstede and Trompenaars research on national cultural factors (his book is Coaching Across Cultures) and in his consulting practice has some measures he uses.

Hello Linda,

Please check out the following:

http://humansynergistics.com/Products/OrganizationDevelopment/OrganizationalCultureInventory

http://humansynergistics.com/docs/default-source/product-info-sheets/oci_product_info_sheet_v1-0_nopricing.pdf?sfvrsn=4

http://humansynergistics.com/ResourceCenter/ResearchandPublications

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