The Virtue Catalogue is the example vocabulary used in HEPO's Ethical Management solution. It describes what an organisation wants to recognise and encourage in its work: keeping commitments, sharing responsibility, treating people with dignity, and acting with integrity. Leaders and practitioners adapt these definitions before deciding which evidence could support a reading of them.

HEPO's Trait Catalogue provides the software for holding definitions and their relationships. The ethical vocabulary supplies the meaning for this particular application. An organisation can use the platform with another vocabulary; adopting these 22 virtues is a choice.

From a value to something people can examine

Consider Honor. In this catalogue it includes standing by colleagues and keeping commitments. A team makes that meaning specific: when a shared deadline is at risk, people acknowledge it, agree who will help, and follow through on the revised commitment.

The definition gives the reviewer a question to ask of task records, follow-ups, and relevant feedback. It also gives participants a basis for discussing whether the interpretation fits their work. Completion time alone cannot establish Honor. The measurement example follows this distinction through internal teams and external relationships.

Three foundational values

Integrity concerns honesty, transparency, and consistency between principles and action. In the application, it means making the basis of a reading inspectable: which definition was used, what evidence supported it, and how it informed the next decision.

Dignity concerns the value of each person and their contribution. It shapes how the organisation defines observation, interprets patterns, and involves people in development. The visibility boundary distinguishes cultural readings from individual participation records and decisions about people.

Gravitas concerns the seriousness with which responsibilities are carried. It asks leaders to examine the evidence, acknowledge uncertainty, and take responsibility for what they decide. Auditability supports that discipline; it cannot perform the discipline for them.

These values connect the vocabulary to HEPO's Guiding Principles.

Twenty-two virtues

The definitions below retain the solution's original vocabulary. They are starting points for interpretation and operational definition. A virtue's name does not, by itself, make it a validated measure.

Some terms carry different associations across workplaces and cultures. Here, for example, Chastity concerns restraint in thought and communication. An organisation needs to make such meanings clear to the people involved before using them in an evaluation.

Fourteen corporate values

The corporate values apply the vocabulary to the organisation's own conduct. They ask what the enterprise does through its policies, decisions, and relationships. The practices below describe the intended application; configuring a value in software does not establish that the organisation lives it.

The two responsibility entries retain different emphases: ethical obligations toward others, and accountable ownership within the organisation.

The virtue-to-function matrix

The same virtue takes a different practical form in procurement, customer support, or finance. This matrix preserves the solution's examples for seven business functions. It is a discussion tool for defining the behaviour and evidence relevant to each context.

The matrix is a starting point for design. For instance, choosing security over convenience is a decision to explain and examine in context; it is not an automatic score supplied by the table.

How the definitions enter HEPO

The organisation chooses the relevant virtues and gives them operational definitions in the Trait Catalogue. It relates them to business functions, evidence, and the decay patterns that may undermine them. Those relationships make the meaning available to the evaluation and review process.

The wider P&C catalogue includes supplied definitions that can be adapted. Its supplied trait set and this 22-virtue reference vocabulary are distinct sets; neither prevents the organisation from authoring its own definitions.

With observation scope and evidence configured, the Trait Evaluation Engine evaluates against those definitions. Culture Indices bring readings together. Recommendations connect a pattern to an action for consideration; Campaigns & Programmes support development; Flourish & Wellbeing supports review of experience and outcomes.

Consultants help the organisation define what a value means in its work. Implementers configure definitions and evidence connections. The responsible leaders and participants examine the readings and decide what follows. The instrument shows. The operator decides.

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