Organizational assessment


Organizational assessment involves discovering where the organization is today. This process examines systems, policies and practices to ensure they are flexible enough to support the future state environment. This phase is at the heart of “managing diversity.” It involves data collection to assess the organizational climate. It consists of surveys which are attitudinal in nature to get a sense of what the work environment is like, cultural audits (which look at the organization’s roots that drive its systems), assessments of written and unwritten organization policies and procedures, and reviews of complaint and grievance data.