The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is:

• A. A tool for measuring financial performance to guide budgets.
• B. A questionnaire based on the Competing Values Framework to identify dominant culture types and guide change planning.
• C. A method for evaluating individual creativity.
• D. A model to prescribe leadership training programs.

Answer: (B)

The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is a questionnaire based on the Competing Values Framework designed to identify the dominant culture types within an organization and to guide change planning. Respondents rate the current culture and the desired future culture across four archetypes—Clan (collaborative), Adhocracy (innovative), Market (results-oriented), and Hierarchy (control). By mapping these ratings, leaders can see where the organization’s culture now stands and what kind of culture it aims to develop to support strategy. That makes it a practical tool for diagnosing cultural strengths and gaps and for planning changes in practices, structures, and leadership approaches. It’s not a tool for measuring financial performance, nor for evaluating individual creativity, and it isn’t itself a model that prescribes leadership training programs, even though the results can inform those efforts.