If you’re familiar with personality tests like Myers-Briggs or CliftonStrengths, you’ll love this similar quiz about where you work!
Our Workplace Culture Type Quiz can help shed light on how your organization makes decisions, works together, and drives results. Grounded in SHRM’s research-backed culture framework, the SHRM Workplace Culture Navigator, our quiz reveals how your workplace aligns with one of SHRM’s eight distinct culture types.
Might your organization be a Growth Collaborator — one that values collaboration, adaptability, and long-term thinking? Or maybe it’s a Strategic Architect — one that blends long-term vision with structured leadership?
Just answer these nine quick questions to find out your culture type, plus get insight into the behaviors, structures, and mindsets that define your workplace today.
Results and Next Steps
Growth Collaborator
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Growth Collaborator culture — one that values collaboration, adaptability, and long-term thinking.
Organizations with this profile tend to move fast by working together. Ideas flow freely, teams take ownership, and progress is driven by shared ambition rather than hierarchy. Collaboration isn’t a buzzword — it’s how work actually gets done.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Steady Collaborator
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Steady Collaborator culture — one grounded in consistency, teamwork, and reliability.
Organizations with this profile succeed by building trust, consistency, and strong working relationships. Progress comes from reliability and teamwork rather than disruption, with an emphasis on steady performance over rapid change.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Ambitious Maverick
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward an Ambitious Maverick culture — one driven by ambition, autonomy, and performance.
Organizations with this profile are fueled by ambition and individual drive. Success is tied to results, initiative, and the ability to move fast. People are expected to own outcomes and push forward with confidence.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Resolute Maverick
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Resolute Maverick culture — one driven by ambition, consistency, and performance.
Organizations with this profile value discipline, accountability, and execution. Work gets done through clear expectations and individual responsibility, with a strong focus on reliability and follow-through.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Strategic Architect
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Strategic Architect culture — one that blends long-term vision with structured leadership.
Organizations with this profile balance big-picture thinking with structured decision-making. Leadership sets direction, systems create alignment, and progress is driven through intentional, well-coordinated action.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Tactical Architect
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Tactical Architect culture — emphasizing structure, coordination, and reliable execution.
Organizations with this profile prioritize order, clarity, and operational consistency. Work moves forward through well-defined roles, dependable processes, and teamwork within established frameworks.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Efficient Achiever
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward an Efficient Achiever culture — focused on performance, accountability, and results.
Organizations with this profile focus on execution, efficiency, and measurable results. Clear authority, disciplined processes, and performance expectations shape how work gets done.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Disciplined Achiever
Your responses suggest your workplace leans toward a Disciplined Achiever culture — built around consistency, structure, and reliability.
Organizations with this profile operate through structure, consistency, and control. Success comes from precision, predictability, and adherence to established ways of working.
Of course, every culture has its strengths as well as potential challenge areas.
Your Next Steps
Explore the Full Research:
To better understand where your organization excels and where it may face friction, SHRM Members can explore the 2026 Global Workplace Culture Report. Gain deeper insight into how all eight of SHRM’s culture types perform in practice — from Growth Collaborator to Ambitious Maverick to Disciplined Achiever.
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Learn More and Get More Involved with SHRM:
- Get SHRM certified. Choose between the SHRM-CP, tailored for HR professionals in operational roles, and the SHRM-SCP, designed for those in strategic senior-level positions.
- Register for these SHRM events:
- Register for our live online seminar Creating a Positive Work Environment.
- Take our eLearning course Why Culture Matters.
Check Out These Related Member Resources:
- How-To Guide: Conduct a Culture Audit — A Comprehensive Guide for HR
- How-to Guide: Evolve Your Culture to Be More Growth-Minded
- Ask an HR Knowledge Advisor for guidance and advice on your workplace culture challenges.
Watch or Listen to These Podcast Episodes:
- All Things Work: Aligning Culture Work to Your Strategic Business Plan
- The AI+HI Project: The Intersection of AI and Workplace Culture
- People + Strategy: The Owner’s Mindset: How HR Leaders Drive Results and Culture
- Tomorrowist: How to Foster a Thriving Remote Workplace Culture