Booz Allen Hamilton

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Mission DNA Profiler

For each question, please select the answer that best describes your organization. Enter your best guess if you are unsure. Survey results may be reported in aggregate, but all individual responses will be kept strictly confidential.

Structure

  1. At the middle-management level, the average number of direct reports is...

  2. Promotions include lateral moves (from one position to another on the same level in the hierarchy)

  3. “Fast track” employees here can expect promotions...

Decision Rights

  1. The culture of this organization can best be described as...

  2. Important strategic and operational decisions are quickly translated into action

  3. The primary role of senior staff here is to...

  4. Managers above me in the hierarchy “get their hands dirty” by getting involved in operating decisions

  5. Once made, decisions are often second-guessed

  6. Everyone has a good idea of the decisions/actions for which he or she is responsible

Information

  1. Overall, this organization deals successfully with significant and unexpected change in the external environment

  2. Important information about our external environment gets to senior staff quickly

  3. Field/operating employees usually have the information they need to understand the ultimate impact of their day-to-day choices on the whole organization and its mission

  4. We rarely send conflicting messages to constituents

  5. Information flows freely across organizational boundaries

  6. Field/operating management has access to the metrics they need to measure the key drivers of their mission

Motivators

  1. If the organization has a bad year, but a particular operating area has a good year, the operating area head would get a more significant reward than the head of an operating area that performed poorly

  2. Besides pay, many other things motivate individuals to do a good job

  3. The individual performance-appraisal process differentiates among high, adequate, and low performers

  4. The ability to deliver on performance commitments strongly influences career advancement and reward

Demographics

  1. Your Field :
  2. Your Position :
  3. Your Function :
  4. Your Location :
  5. How well does your organization achieve its mission?


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