How innovative is your department or organisation ?

   Pick a department or an organisation and keep it in mind as you answer the following questions.

   Section 1

   The first nine questions are designed to assess the level of innovation in the general work environment. That is, they are designed to assess the general attitude or culture of the people in the department or firm.

Strongly Disagree Disagree Average Agree Strongly Agree
1 Doing things differently here is valued 1 2 3 4 5
2 New and different ideas are always being tried out 1 2 3 4 5
3 This place would be one of the first to try a new idea 1 2 3 4 5
4 Variety and change are not considered important 1 2 3 4 5
5 The same methods have been used for quite a long time 1 2 3 4 5
6 New approaches to things are rarely tried 1 2 3 4 5
7 Things tend to stay about the same 1 2 3 4 5
8 There is a fresh, novel atmosphere about the place 1 2 3 4 5
9 Things always seem to be changing 1 2 3 4 5

 

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