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What is Culture Index?
What does flourishing mean here?
Flourishing concerns the experience of coherence between purpose, action and participation in work. Pulses, rituals, assessments and indicators can help people examine that experience. The readings are contextual and do not amount to a clinical diagnosis or proof that a programme improved wellbeing. Read more.
Why use operational evidence as well as surveys?
Records can reveal timing, participation, handovers and other aspects of work that a survey does not capture. Surveys, pulses and assessments can contribute the experience that records alone cannot explain. Each source has limits; combine them for a declared purpose rather than assuming one is inherently truthful. Read more.
Can people see what is read about their work?
Visibility depends on the configured permissions and reporting surfaces. Establish how participants are informed, what they can inspect, how errors are corrected and where interpretations can be challenged. Check that arrangement in the deployed workflow rather than relying on a general privacy statement. Read more.
Is this surveillance?
Responsible use requires explicit choices about purpose, evidence, access and participation. Connected work records are not automatically appropriate for every evaluation, and access to a record is not a reason to use it for employee monitoring. Explain what is examined and how people can question the interpretation. Read more.
How do programmes relate to gamification?
Campaigns and programmes organise development through paths, milestones, work and recognition. Open campaigns differ from assigned programmes. Simulation & Gamification can supply learning and rehearsal activities; it is also a distinct offering. Participation, competition and visibility need explicit decisions. Read more.
How are recommendations formed?
Does it score individuals?
HEPO supports scoped readings, individual development and achievement records. It would be inaccurate to say that per-person information or boards cannot exist. Decide the purpose, audience and permitted use of each reading. A score must not be treated as a complete judgment of a person. Read more.
Can the assistant act on people automatically?
A recommendation is input to a responsible decision, not authority to make an employment or development judgment. Processes can execute authorised work, so their permissions, human gates and effects must be configured deliberately. Do not confuse a suggested action with an approved execution. Read more.
Where do trait definitions come from?
HEPO includes supplied definitions. Your organisation reviews, selects, adapts and extends the catalogue, then governs the definitions used for its own readings. Consultants can help translate working practices into definitions and evidence rules; ownership remains with the organisation. Read more.