Profit Climate 2

The Five-minute "C.E.O." Climate Quiz

Does your organization have a climate that is conducive to being cost-effective or is the corporate climate part of the problem? Do you have a C.E.O. - Cost Effective Organization? Or are there changes that must be made for success? This quiz will help you evaluate your current situation.

Following is the manual version.

Click here for the fully automated online automated version of the evaluation.

Instructions: Print this page (You will want a hard copy of your results for review and discussion as well as to take the quiz.). Read the question or comment, consider to what extent it applies to your organization (yes = substantially, no = partially or not at all), and then place a check mark in the appropriate box. When finished, go on to the scoring discussion.

	Questions & Comments: How do they apply to your organization?	Yes	No
1	Do you have an open-door policy that works? In other words: Do people actually talk in confidence to top management even about issues that might put their careers in jeopardy?
2	Do you have an effective safety program? It's effective if A) you communicate it regularly and B) your accident rate is dropping or is zero.
3	Do you feel like you are part of a team rather than just a worker?
4	Does everyone who spends money know what their budget is and have regular reviews?
5	Does your organization have strategic goals and does everyone in the organization know what they are?
6	We make good decisions easily. There's not a lot of bureaucracy and the steps we do take to make big decisions are worth the effort.
7	New ideas are always encouraged and given a fair evaluation.
8	Is your revenue/income per employee higher than that of the majority of those in your business? (Don't know = "No")
9	Are you personally proud to have visitors come see your facilities at any time?
10	Do you have a formal cost reduction program with annual objectives that everyone is involved in?
11	I don’t feel that others or I have to put in too much overtime to keep up.
12	Do you feel that your opinion and your work are respected?
13	Coworkers and peers often say that they really enjoy working in your organization.
14	It's easy to attract and hire people when we need them.
15	It's hard to fire people but we always do it when the person just doesn't fit in.
16	Our organization is not wasteful.
17	Is the complaint rate from customers and/or clients lower than that of the majority of those in your business? (Don't know = "No")
18	Communications are good in your organization. People don't complain that they don't know what's going on.
19	Adverse interdepartmental rivalry does not exist. We all cooperate and get along in a professional manner.
20	We all have the tools and training that we need to do our jobs well.
	SCORING: Add up the number of check marks in each column and go to the scoring discussion page.

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