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name: workplace-climate-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain a Workplace Climate Assessment — organizational culture and psychological safety measured with a normalized Likert-scale index — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples; related to workplace-stress-assessment and workplace-safety-assessment.
---

# Workplace Climate Assessment

Workplace climate assessment measuring organizational culture,
psychological safety, and employee experience using a validated
Likert-scale instrument, to inform leadership, inclusion, and wellbeing
programmes.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** Workplace Climate Index (Likert-scale 1–5 per item).
Range 0–100 (normalized composite).

- **Thriving (85–100)** — strong, inclusive, psychologically safe
  climate.
- **Healthy (70–84)** — generally positive with minor areas for
  growth.
- **Developing (50–69)** — mixed climate with several improvement
  areas.
- **Strained (25–49)** — concerning climate requiring targeted
  intervention.
- **Critical (0–24)** — severely unhealthy climate requiring urgent
  leadership action.

## What it covers

Demographics; leadership and management; psychological safety;
inclusion and belonging; communication; collaboration and teamwork;
recognition and reward; wellbeing; career development; and overall
climate with recommendations.

## Common pitfalls

- **Reading the composite score without checking domain-level
  variance** — a "Healthy" overall score can mask one severely weak
  domain (e.g. psychological safety) that a composite number averages
  away; review domain scores individually, not just the total.
- **Treating a single survey wave as conclusive** — climate surveys are
  most useful tracked over time; a single snapshot is harder to act on
  than a trend showing whether interventions are working.
- **Surveying without a credible plan to act on results** — a workplace
  climate assessment that produces no visible follow-through erodes
  trust and lowers response quality/rates on future surveys.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: workplace-climate-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/workplace-climate-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[workplace-stress-assessment]], [[workplace-safety-assessment]] for related workplace assessments.