Cultural Audits

Internationally respected studies from Harvard Business School by Kotter and Heskett- as reported in their book, “Corporate Culture and Performance”- have shown there to be a direct bottom line correlation between the existing corporate culture and the organizations effectiveness and performance. The results below from these studies over an eleven year period speak for themselves.

The Cost of a Non-Adaptive Culture
Economic Performance Adaptive Culture
(Constructive)
Non-Adaptive Culture
(Defensive)
Increase of Revenue 682% 166%
Expansion of Workforce 282% 36%
Growth of Stock Prices 901% 74%
Improvement of Net Incomes 756% 1%
Source: Kotter J. P. and Heskett J.L. (1992)

Meelup Management has used these findings and associated work by Kotter as the reference point to graphically demonstrate the benefits of creating a sustainable, constructive and adaptive culture. Companies can now have their own corporate cultures measured and assessed to see to what extent their corporate culture fits these criteria.

Using the statistically valid and reliable Organisational Cultural Inventory from the Human Synergistics Australasian stable, (which is benchmarked against other Australian organisations), we are able to provide a clear diagnostic on:

  • The current operating culture (includes different departments, states and business units if applicable)
  • The ideal culture as defined by management/ owners.

This allow us to have meaningful conversations with the leadership team of the organization and strategise on:

  • Where the levers for change are,
  • The organization’s readiness and ability to change.

The cultural assessment is often used to create a sense of urgency in the leadership team/ organization, which is as described by Kotter, the first step in making change last or stick.