OCTAPACE PROFILE

Name (optional) ______________________ Age_______ Marital Status ___________ Gender __________ Organization: Banking/Retail/IT_________ Designation_______________ This instrument will help you to look at some of the values and beliefs of your organization. Given below are statements that indicate some organisational values. If these are values of the top management, they generally will be shared in the organization. Read each statement and give your response on the sheet. Your response should indicate how much the spirit contained in the statement is valued in your organization. For items 25 to 40, check how widely each belief, stated there is shared in the organization. Please be frank.

Respond to the following items on the Sheet, indicate the extent to which the following things are valued or poorly valued in your organization.

1 Very Low Value 1. Free interaction among employees, each respecting others, feelings, competence and sense of judgment. 2. Facing and not shying away from problems. 3. Offering moral support and help to employees and colleagues in a crisis 4. Congruity between feelings and expressed behavior (minimum gap between what people say and do). 5. Preventive action on most

2 Rather Low Value

3 Fairly High Value

4 Highly Valued

matters. 6. Taking independent action relating to their jobs. 7. Team work and team spirit. 8. Trying out innovative ways of solving problems. 9. Genuine sharing of information, feelings and thoughts in meetings. 10. Going deeper rather than doing surface-level analysis of interpersonal problems. 11. Interpersonal contact and support among people. 12. Tactfulness, smartness and even a little manipulation to get things done. 13. Seniors encouraging their subordinates to think about their development and take action in that direction. 14. Close supervision of, and directing employees on, action. 15. Accepting and appreciating help offered by others. 16. Encouraging employees to take a fresh look at how things are done. 17. Free discussion and communication between seniors and subordinates.

18. Facing challenges inherent

in the work situation. 19. Confiding in seniors without fear that they will misuse the trust. 20. Owing up to mistakes. 21. Considering both positive and negative aspects before taking action. 22. Obeying and checking with seniors rather than acting on your own 23. Performing immediate tasks rather than being concerned about large organizational goals 24. Making genuine attempts to change behaviour on the basis of feedback.

For the statements below indicate the extent to which the belief is shared in the organization.

1 Few or None Have This Belief 25. Effective managers put a lid on their feelings. 26. Pass the buck tactfully when there is a problem. 27. Trust begets trust.

2 Organization Share This Belief

3 Fairly Widely Shared

4 Very Widely Shared Belief

28. Telling a polite lie is preferable to telling the unpleasant truth. 29. Prevention is better than cure. 30. Freedom to employees breeds indiscipline. 31. Usually, emphasis on team work dilutes individual accountability. 32. Thinking out and doing new things tones up the organisations vitality. 33. Free and frank communication between various levels helps in solving problems. 34. Surfacing problems is not enough; we should find the solutions. 35. When the chips are down you have to fend for yourself (people cannot rely on others in times of crisis) 36. People generally are what they appear to be. 37. A stitch in time

saves nine. 38. A good way to motivate employees is to give them autonomy to plan their work. 39. Employees involvement in developing an organisations mission and goals contributes to productivity. 40. In todays competitive situations, consolidation and stability are more important than experimentation.

About your feelings at work place

Given below are statements related to your feelings about your organization. Please read each statement carefully and answer with a tick mark ( ) indicating

the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statements. Please note that there is no right or wrong answer and complete confidentiality will be maintained with regards to your responses.

1 Strongly Disagree 1. I would be very happy to spend the rest of my career with this organization. 2. I enjoy discussing about my organization with people outside it. 3. I really feel as if this organizations problems are my own. 4. I think that I could easily become as attached to another organization as I am to this one. 5. I do not feel like part of the family at my organization. 6. I do not feel emotionally attached to this organization. 7. This organization has a great deal of personal meaning for me. 8. I do not feel a strong sense of belonging to my organization. 9. I am not afraid of what might happen if I quit my job without having another one lined up. 10. It would be very hard for me to leave my organization right now, even if I wanted to.

2 Disagree

3 Agree

4 Strongly Agree

11. Too much in my life would be disrupted if I decided to leave my organization now. 12. It wouldnt be too costly for me to leave my organization now. 13. Right now, staying with my organization is a matter of necessity as much as a desire. 14. I feel that I have very few options to consider leaving this organization. 15. One of the few serious consequences of leaving this organization would be the scarcity of available alternatives. 16. One of the major reasons I continue to work for this organization is that leaving would require considerable personal sacrifice- another organization may not match the overall benefits I have here. 17. I think that people these days move from company to company too often. 18. I do not believe that a person must always be loyal to his or her organization. 19. Jumping from organization to organization does not seem at all unethical to me. 20. One of the major reasons I continue to work in this organization is that I believe loyalty is important and

therefore feel a sense of moral obligation to remain. 21. If I got another offer for a better job elsewhere I would not feel it was right to leave my organization. 22. I was taught to believe in the value of remaining loyal to one organization. 23. Things were better in the days when people stayed in one organization for most of their careers. 24. I do not think that to be a company man or a company woman is sensible any more.