Diagnostic Tools Commonly Used In Organ

Assessment Techniques in HR
Diagnostic Tools Commonly used in Business Organizations

Pooja Lalwani (HR001)
Anusha Srivastava (HR004)
Sravanthi Karoor (HR007)
Aashka Humble (HR010)

Executive Summary
This report examines the different kinds of diagnostic tools used by the organizations to identify discrepancies in their performance and help them move towards organizational efficiency. The report evaluates five diagnostic tools which are:
1. Organizational Health Index
2. Organizational Cultural Inventory
3. Organizational Effectiveness Inventory
4. Organizational DNA Profiler Survey
5. Integral Organization Survey

The report also provides information about the organizations that have been using these tools to carry out diagnosis, the technique that they are using and the samples that were collected as a result of primary and secondary research.

Contents
Executive Summary 2
Introduction 4
Objective and Purpose 6
Organizational Health Index 7
Organizational Cultural Inventory………………...……………………………………………..15
Organizational Effectiveness Inventory………………………………………………………….24
Organizational DNA Profiler Survey 40
Integral Organization Survey 50
Companies using Diagnostic Tools...............................................................................................56
Appendix I: Organizational DNA Profiler Questionnaire.............................................................67
References 70

Introduction
In today’s competitive world, organizations are fighting to survive in a rapidly changing and a highly competitive environment. They are frequently confronted with uncertainties and challenges in their actions and need to develop a capability of adapting to unstable environments and situations. Organizational change is not only necessary but inevitable. The way the change processes are planned and implemented is extremely critical to the development of an organization.
Organizational Diagnosis has become the first step in a broad organizational

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