Culture Catalogue manages the trait and anti-trait definitions that People & Culture Orchestration uses to interpret evidence.
The catalogue is your organisation's vocabulary for good work — the traits it wants to see repeated and the anti-traits it names as corrosive, authored by your operation, versioned under governance. This manual covers the two definition families, their measurement parameters, and the wiring that makes them readable.
What you record
The trait
| Field group | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Identity | Name, slug, description, the short description |
| Classification | The trait type, the colour, the icon |
| Weight | The composite weight — how much this trait counts in composite readings |
| Resonance | The resonance floor and ceiling — the band where the trait's evidence is strongest |
| Dynamics | The decay coefficient, the sensitivity level, the inertia momentum — how the trait behaves over time |
| Resolution | The signal bandwidth, the temporal resolution, the baseline confidence — how fine-grained its readings can be |
| Structure | The polarity spectrum, the semantic anchors, the category assignments |
A trait is not a value statement — it is a measurement definition: what the behaviour looks like, how strongly it counts, how it decays, where its evidence resonates. When your operation authors a trait, it is tuning an instrument, not writing a poster.
The anti-trait
| Field group | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Identity | Name, slug, descriptions |
| Severity | How corrosive the pattern is |
| Domain | Where it operates |
| Detection | The detection difficulty, the pattern description — what the pattern looks like in behaviour |
| Dynamics | The decay coefficient, the contagion rate (how it spreads), the escalation velocity (how fast it grows) |
Anti-traits are named honestly: the corrosive patterns your operation knows exist — with parameters for examining their evidence and dynamics. Detection depends on the evidence and method in use.
The shared stacks
Traits carry their own feature stacks (groups → features → options), category trees, evaluation rules, and the action library — the wired responses the engine can recommend when a reading surfaces. Record definition versions and changes so a reading can be interpreted against the definition used.
What you can do
- Author and version — create traits and anti-traits under governance; record the change and applicable version
- Assign categories and weights — the classification and the composite weights your readings use
- Wire evaluation rules — the rules that connect each trait to the evidence that shows it
- Define the actions — the response library each reading can draw on
- Relate — the wiring below
What it connects to
| Target | Examples of the connection |
|---|---|
| Trait categories | The classification tree your operation maintains |
| Polarity pairs | The trait/anti-trait oppositions — the mirror structure |
| Evaluation rules | The evidence sources each trait reads |
| The readings | The indices and scores computed against these definitions |
| Programmes | The campaigns and development work the readings inform |
Where it feeds
The catalogue is link one of the chain: every observation, every index, every recommendation traces back to a definition your operation authored. Change the catalogue and the readings change with it — under version governance, never silently. The catalogue platform story is the buyer page; this manual is the authoring surface.
The pattern note: same four-part structure — record, do, connect, feed. The catalogue manual is where the authored-vocabulary pattern shows: the supplied catalogue provides a starting point; your organisation selects, adapts and governs the definitions used in its readings.
Consultants facilitate selection and authoring, including review of supplied definitions; implementers wire the definitions to your operational evidence once written. The catalogue is your organisation's own sentence.
No record is an island
Every trait relates to its categories, its polarity mirror, its evaluation rules, and the readings it feeds. The catalogue is not a list — it is a tuned instrument, and the wiring is what makes it sing.
Review the record and its context before deciding what to do next.
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Check your work
Begin with the supplied definitions and review their meaning for your organisation. Select or adapt a small set, specify evidence and scope, and record ownership and the version used. Test a worked example before changing weights or dynamics. A parameter such as contagion rate describes a model assumption; it does not establish that human behaviour spreads at that rate.
Available screens and actions depend on your deployment and permissions. Use this manual alongside the configured workflow and the capability demonstration for your installation.