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HR & SKILLS IT is the most negative corporate department regarding the way the company is run and its characteristics. But why is the IT department so pessimistic?
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IT departments are surprisingly negative about the companies they work for, according to a long-running Booz Allen Hamilton study that investigates companies' "organisational DNA".
The term "organisational DNA" was coined as a metaphor for the collection of traits that characterise different organisations. The concept originated from a desire to distil years of experience about the factors that differentiate successful companies from their competitors.
Over the past five years, Booz Allen has been collecting data from employees in a range of industries and functions using the Org DNA Profiler, an online tool that has been used to survey individuals about the companies they work for.
It evaluates companies in terms of decision rights, information, motivators and structure, and uses these assessments to diagnose the company's health. The survey has already had 50,000 responses globally - about 10% of these respondents work in IT functions within their companies.
IT workers are most negative
When the results from the Org DNA survey are grouped by corporate division, it is clear that the IT...