His primary interest is in organisational climate - “what it feels like to
work here” - and its effects on performance.
Organisational climate assessment
Early research led to the development of an organisational climate
assessment instrument (OCA). which has been widely used to provide valuable
management insights.
Assessment of the current organisational climate allows practical steps to
be planned to make real improvements, with performance dividends.
The 2002 monograph
The Padua Paradigm
explains how this instrument is used..
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Many research projects are designed to investigate a specific issue and will
never be repeated in quite the same form. Some perennial issues do, though,
frequently recur. These are some examples:
Other research projects
Employee engagement & motivation
Departmental purpose analysis
Process mapping
Training needs analysis
How do people feel about their organisation, their work, their managers?
What needs to change?
People usually know
what their
department or team does but they also need to know
why:
how their work fits into the wider
picture, its importance, and how others are affected by it.
The way work is organised often develops over
time. Identifying all the activities
in a given work area and the links between
them can help to eliminate wasted effort and lead to more harmonious
interactions between people and teams.
A structured assessment of the skills and knowledge that are required to do
a job well, compared with an assessment of the
skills and knowledge the people who
have
to do the job actually possess, enabling useful, cost-effective training to
be planned.
Roderic Gray has been conducting and
directing both commercial and academic people-related research
in a broad range of organisations for over 30 years
