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The Consistency Trait: Can Organizations Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

9/3/2009 3:21:12 PM

The Consistency Trait: Can Organizations Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

You’ve heard the adage, “more color is better,” when receiving your Denison Organizational Culture Survey results, but that only tells half the story: balance is equally important. New research by  Dr. Aaron Schmidt of the University of Akron and the Denison researchers reveals that if the ONLY color on your report is yellow (Consistency) you might be in trouble. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology awarded Denison researchers a grant to explore how the different traits of the Denison model interact with each other to predict organizational effectiveness. This study suggests that scoring high on Consistency can have a negative impact on organizational performance when scores on the other traits are low. Yet, when scores on the other traits are high – consistent organizations perform well. To find out why, access: The Consistency Trait: Can Organizations Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

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