culture of belonging survey best practices and samplequestions

PDF · 16 Nov 2025

This PDF guide (Ridley Consulting Group, author Beth Ridley) provides sample survey items and practical recommendations for measuring an organizational culture of belonging across five domains: Comfort, Connection, Contribution, Commitment, and Leadership. It includes a short set of Likert-style index questions, domain-specific items, open-ended prompts for qualitative feedback, and concise best-practice rules for survey length, question selection, and demographic handling.

Questions this document answers

4-point Likert scale: strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree.

Ideally no more than 15 questions in length.

Include one index question and 2–3 open-ended questions.

Only include results for demographic categories that have at least 5 respondents to ensure anonymity.

COPYRIGHT ©2021 BETH RIDLEY (Ridley Consulting Group).

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