The Organisational Description Questionnaire (ODQ) was developed by Professors Bernard Bass and Bruce Avolio to complement their study of what they call the full range of leadership. The full range of leadership looks at organisational culture in relation to transactional and transformational leadership styles. Professor Ken Parry has conducted extensive research on the ODQ and it has been shown to be a statistically valid tool for assessing an organisations culture.

It is a brief 28-item questionnaire and the resulting report assist members of an organization explore the relationships between leaders. The ODQ measures how often each member of the organization perceives the culture of their unit/department/organization to be using a full range of specific leadership factors. Using transformational and transactional leadership behaviours, the ODQ places the organization on a nine point scale spanning cultures such as "Bureaucratic," "Coasting" and "Highly Developed." See below.

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