Organizational Categories 

Organizational Categories provide the organization with internal comparisons to highlight the consistency of employee perceptions throughout the organization. Organizations that chose to tailor the survey instrument provided their respondents with up to three workplace categories to identify with. This breakdown makes it easier to understand the viewpoints from different parts of the organization.

Comparisons of each category to the whole organization are provided in both the Executive Summary and the Data Reports. Excel Files contain data on all of the categories for your use in cross category analysis. Care should be taken when making these sorts of comparisons. Large differences in scores between categories with the similar size or function may be more significant that comparisons done between categories with significantly different sizes or functions. 

Providing managers with data specific to their office or division may be helpful in localizing improvement efforts. On the organizational level, you may try to determine what factors cause certain categories to score high and implement similar strategies to their corresponding lower scoring categories.

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