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What impact can a 360 leadership survey have on performance? How does the Denison model relate to Innovation? Or to performance indicators like Customer Satisfaction?  Our Research Note series contains easy-to-read articles featuring our latest research on the link between culture and leadership to organizational performance. Learn more today!

 

Title Type Author Resource Type Year Size
Gender, Age and Industry: Exploring the Variables of Leadership The context in which a leader works has a big effect on how male and female leaders are perceived in the workplace. This Note explores the factors of Age and Industry and how they affect our perceptions. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2011 532.60 KB
Denison Overview: Introduction to the Denison Model This Research Note provides a detailed overview of the Denison model to explain how the model is used, as well as why an organization would want to use it. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2011 773.55 KB
Which Comes First: Culture or Performance? Based on the research of Dr. Anthony Boyce of Michigan State University, this research shows the relationship between culture and performance describing. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2011 285.98 KB
Balanced Profile, Better Organizations: Learning to Balance This research note looks at recent research from Cengiz Yilmaz and Ercan Ergun at Bogazici University and Gebze Institute of Technology on the importance of a balanced profile. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2010 1.04 MB
Organizational Culture & Employee Engagement: What's the Difference? This Research Note explores connection between Organizational Culture and Employee Engagement showing that it’s the combination of both that is most critical to improving overall effectiveness of the organization and the people in it. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2010 791.42 KB
Leadership and Organizational Culture: What's the Connection? What's the connection between a leader and the culture of their organization, department or function? This Research Note explores the relationship between a leader's influence and its affect on the group they lead. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2010 1.53 MB
Executive Coaching: Does Leader Behavior Change with Feedback and Coaching? We examined 237 emerging leaders at the Defense Logistics Agency to determine whether structured coaching sessions with multisource feedback are a successful combination. Results showed that managers made the biggest change from the Boss perspective. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2009 1.33 MB
The Consistency Trait: Can Organizations Have Too Much of a Good Thing? When is consistency good and when is it bad? This research note investigates the effects that consistency has in organizations’ culture. The effects of consistency are tested with a sample of 137 publicly traded organizations. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2009 328.57 KB
Customer Satisfaction: What Impact Does Your Culture Have? Research Note reviews two studies conducted in three different environments. These studies explored the effect that different aspects of organizational culture have on customer satisfaction. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2009 877.18 KB
Organizational Culture and Innovation: Understanding the Link Findings from this study suggest that organizations with higher culture scores rank higher on new product development and are expected to grow more in the future than those with low culture scores. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2008 796.46 KB
Workplace Diversity: Is National or Organizational Culture Predominant? This study examines the effect of organizational culture and national culture on employee’s perceptions of how their organization is managing diversity. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2008 494.73 KB
Proving the Link: ROA, Sales Growth, Market to Book This Research Note highlights the latest compelling evidence linking organizational culture to bottom-line metrics such as return-on-assets, sales growth and market-to-book ratio. .pdf Denison Consulting Denison Research Note 2006 458.67 KB