The Denison Model is a management tool to diagnose and build culture alignment. Denison Model can help to understand the current state of the organization’s effectiveness and to propel it to the desired direction. The Denison Model presents four key cultural traits and twelve related management practices. At its core, are the beliefs and assumptions? Blank segments on concentric circles will let professionals add trait scores based on assessments. • Adaptability • Mission • Involvement • Consistency.

1. Is this your Workplace?
You all are Good for Nothing!

2. All you Need is
Culture Alignment

3. Beliefs &
Assumptions
External Focus
External Focus
Flexible Stable
Denison Model

4. Disclaimer:
The Presenter is not associated in any direct or implied manner with Denison
Consulting and the presentation is a deep analysis of the improvements that the
Model offers

5. Beliefs &
Assumptions
ADAPTABILITY
INVOLVEMENT
MISSION
CONSISTENCY
Pattern, Trends,
& Market
Commitment, Ownership &
Responsibility
Direction, Purpose, & Blueprint
Systems, Structures, & Processes
External Focus
External Focus
Flexible Stable
Are we listening to the marketplace?
Translating the demand of the business
environment into action
Do we know where
we are going?
Define a meaningful
long-term direction
Are our people aligned and engaged?
Build human capability, ownership, and
responsibility
Does our system create leverage?
Define the values & systems that are the basis of
a strong culture

6. Beliefs &
Assumptions
MISSION
Direction, Purpose, & Blueprint
External Focus
Stable
Do we know where
we are going?
Define a meaningful
long-term direction

7. Beliefs &
Assumptions
CONSISTENCY
Systems, Structures, & Processes
External Focus
Stable
Does our system create leverage?
Define the values & systems that are the
basis of a strong culture

8. Beliefs &
Assumptions
INVOLVEMENT
Commitment, Ownership &
Responsibility
External Focus
Flexible
Are our people aligned and
engaged?
Build human capability, ownership, and
responsibility

9. Beliefs &
Assumptions
ADAPTABILITY
Pattern, Trends,
& Market
External Focus
Flexible
Are we listening to the marketplace?
Translating the demand of the business
environment into action

10. Balancing
Cultural Traits
Are you ready?

11. Balancing Mission and
Consistency for
Greater Efficiency and
Profitability
The right side is the ‘stable side’. It
consists of mission and consistency. In
this case the organization’s goals,
objectives, strategic direction and
intent needs to align with its core
values, workforce coordination and
integration. By balancing both,
organizations can create reliability over
time, resulting in alignments leading to
greater efficiency and profitability.

12. Balancing
Consistency
Involvement
Predict Efficient
Operating
Performance
It has been proven that organizations where people feel involved
and have a sense of accountability in a system that leverages
reliable practice, will experience high levels of operating
performance, employee satisfaction and high-quality output.
With capability development of employees, employee
empowerment and focusing on appropriate team orientations to
enhance coordination and integration, the organizations can create
a culture of predictable and high performing work force.

13. Balancing
Consistency
Involvement
Predict
Efficient
Operating
Performance
It has been proven that organizations where people feel involved
and have a sense of accountability in a system that leverages
reliable practice, will experience high levels of operating
performance, employee satisfaction and high-quality output.
With capability development of employees, employee
empowerment and focusing on appropriate team orientations to
enhance coordination and integration, the organizations can create
a culture of predictable and high performing work force.

14. Balancing Adaptability and
Involvement
for Innovation and Customer
Satisfaction
Organizations which have a workforce
committed towards achieving desired
goals will result in ways to better
understand customer needs, as well as
to adapt and innovate in order to come
up with products, services and
improvisations that can keep customers
happy.
Innovation and customer satisfaction
requires a workforce that is driven
towards organizational goals and listens
to the market, resulting in innovation and
customer satisfaction.

15. Balancing
Mission and
Adaptability for
Organizational
Growth
In order to achieve organizational growth, Mission and Adaptability
needs to be in sync. Organizations tend to experience growth when
the focus is on to aligning their mission with adaptability to satisfy
customer demands.