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- Glossary· Documentation of an AI modelTerm
Model card
Documentation of an AI model
- Glossary· Glassdoor sentiment metricTerm
CEO approval rating
…e share of reviewers who approve of the CEO. Highly visible to candidates; trend matters more than absolute level.
- Glossary· Layered defensesTerm
Swiss Cheese Model
James Reason's model: incidents happen when holes in multiple defensive layers (monitoring, review,…
- Glossary· Goal – Reality – Options – WillTerm
GROW model
Goal – Reality – Options – Will
- Glossary· 5 conflict stylesTerm
Thomas-Kilmann modes
5 conflict styles
- Glossary· What skills the org needsTerm
Capability model
What skills the org needs
- Glossary· Founder share buyback rightTerm
Reverse vesting
Founder share buyback right
- Glossary· Models that forecast people outcomesTerm
Predictive people analytics
Models that forecast people outcomes
- Glossary· Statistical model for binary outcomesTerm
Logistic regression
Statistical model for binary outcomes
- Glossary· Professional Employer OrganizationTerm
PEO
US co-employment model: the PEO is co-employer for tax, benefits, and HR while you direct the work. E…
- Glossary· Security controls auditTerm
SOC 2
…riod (typically 6–12 months) and is the modern baseline for HR vendors.
- Glossary· Writing as defaultTerm
Async-first
An operating model where written artifacts are the default for any work and synchronous time is r…
- Glossary· Situation – Behavior – ImpactTerm
SBI feedback
…eative Leadership's structured feedback model. Name the situation, describe the observable behavior, share the impact. Reduc…
- Glossary· 4 levels of training evaluationTerm
Kirkpatrick
Donald Kirkpatrick's model: Reaction, Learning, Behavior, Results. The standard frame for evaluating L&D…
- Glossary· Culture's bedrockTerm
Underlying assumptions
The deepest layer in Schein's culture model: the taken-for-granted beliefs that govern behavior, often invisible to inside…
- Glossary· Vest in one chunk at month 12Term
Cliff vesting
…. Protects the company if a hire (or co-founder) leaves early.
- Glossary· US tax election within 30 daysTerm
83(b) election
An IRS election that lets a founder or employee receiving restricted stock pay ordinary income tax on the (usually…
- Glossary· Org-chart depthTerm
Layers
…ber of management levels between IC and CEO. Healthy mature orgs: 4–6 layers; flatter for early-stage. Each added layer slo…
- Glossary· Granting system accessTerm
Access provisioning
…stems. SCIM-driven from the HRIS is the modern baseline; manual provisioning is a security and offboarding risk.
- Glossary· How work actually gets done hereTerm
Culture
Edgar Schein's three-level model: artifacts (visible), espoused values (stated), underlying assumptions (the re…
- Glossary· Upfront-fee executive searchTerm
Retained search
Executive-search engagement model where the firm is paid in installments regardless of placement. The norm for V…
- Glossary· Pay-on-placement searchTerm
Contingent search
Recruiting model where the firm is paid only if their candidate is hired. Common for mid-level…
- Glossary· What skills you have todayTerm
Skills inventory
…n the workforce, mapped to a capability model. Foundation for gap analysis, internal mobility, and workforce planning.
- Glossary· Deploy skills, not titlesTerm
Skills-based organization
An operating model where work is staffed by skills rather than fixed roles. Demands a strong skil…
- Glossary· Have vs needTerm
Capability gap analysis
…skills inventory against the capability model required by strategy. Output: build, buy, borrow, or bot decisions per gap.
- Glossary· Learning in the Flow of WorkTerm
LIFOW
…separate LMS. The dominant direction in modern L&D.
- Glossary· IC and manager paths of equal weightTerm
Dual track
…par with management roles. Standard in modern tech orgs.
- Glossary· One leader, one missionTerm
Single-threaded leader
Amazon's model where each initiative has a leader whose sole job is that initiative. Counters…
- Glossary· Grouped by customer outcomeTerm
Product-aligned teams
…ith all functions embedded. Standard in modern product organisations.
- Glossary· Employees on the board (DE)Term
Co-determination
…s a fundamentally different stakeholder model from US shareholder-primacy.
- Glossary· Algorithmic candidate evaluationTerm
AI hiring assessment
Use of ML models to evaluate resumes, video interviews, games, or work samples. Governed by NY…
- Glossary· Structured extraction from resumesTerm
Resume parser
…The first machine-mediated step in most modern ATSs — and a known source of bias and signal loss.
- Glossary· Vesting on acquisitionTerm
Single-trigger acceleration
…the employee is retained. Rare for non-founders.
- Glossary· Tax-time election on restricted stockTerm
83(b) election
…d within 30 days of grant. Powerful for founders and early employees if the stock appreciates.
- Glossary· Stack-rank with mandated distributionTerm
Forced ranking
…at GE under Welch; largely abandoned in modern tech orgs as anti-collaboration.
- Glossary· Holistic comp + benefits + experienceTerm
Total Rewards
…, recognition, growth, and culture. The modern alternative to siloed comp + benefits conversations.
- Glossary· US tax election on early-vested equityTerm
83(b) election
…e at grant rather than vest. Common for founders and early hires receiving restricted stock; mis-handling creates large surpris…
- Glossary· Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, ReinforcementTerm
ADKAR
Prosci's individual-change model. Useful checklist for whether a change has actually landed person-by-person, n…
- Glossary· Specialist team serving the businessTerm
Centre of excellence
…terpart to embedded HRBPs in the Ulrich model.
- Glossary· Part-time Chief People OfficerTerm
Fractional CPO
…where full-time CPO isn't justified but founder-led HR is failing.
- Glossary· How work, teams, and authority are structuredTerm
Organizational design
…ights, and incentives. Galbraith's Star Model and Mintzberg's configurations are the standard frames.
- Glossary· Centralised HR operationsTerm
Shared services
…pany. The 'service' layer of the Ulrich model.
- Glossary· Internal psychological adjustment to changeTerm
Transition
From Bridges' model: the inner process (ending → neutral zone → new beginning) people go through d…
- Glossary· Mix of employees, contractors, partnersTerm
Workforce ecosystem
MIT/Deloitte concept: the modern workforce includes full-time employees, contractors, gig workers, agencies, a…
- Glossary· Integration Platform as a ServiceTerm
iPaaS
…ms. The default integration layer for a modern people-ops stack.
- Glossary· Business definitions over raw dataTerm
Semantic layer
A modelling layer (dbt, LookML, Cube) that defines metrics and entities consistently s…
- Glossary· Doing the job, no moreTerm
Quiet quitting
A 2022 label for setting hard work boundaries. Less a new behavior, more a new public conversation about effort and pay.
- Glossary· How decisions get made hereTerm
Operating principles
More specific than values: the rules a team uses to resolve trade-offs (e.g., 'disagree and commit', 'written-first', 'customer over comfort'). Amazon's Leadership Principles are the canonical example.
- Glossary· More likely than notTerm
Preponderance of evidence
Civil-law evidentiary standard used in workplace investigations (>50% probability). Lower than criminal 'beyond reasonable doubt'. The standard most HR investigations apply.
- Glossary· How connected a node is in a networkTerm
Centrality
ONA measure of influence — degree, betweenness, eigenvector. High-centrality employees aren't always senior; losing them is disproportionately costly.
- Glossary· Hire on demonstrated skillsTerm
Skills-based hiring
Selecting on assessed skills and work samples rather than degrees and titles. Demands more rigorous assessment design.
- Glossary· Commit to productionTerm
Lead time
Time from code commit to code running in production. One of the four DORA metrics. Elite teams: under 1 hour.
- Glossary· AI coding assistantTerm
Copilot
GitHub Copilot is the most widely deployed AI pair-programmer. Used as a generic term for AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, etc.).
- Glossary· Right to be heardTerm
Natural justice
Legal principle underpinning workplace investigations: the accused has the right to know the allegations and respond before a decision is made.
- Glossary· Non-qualified Stock OptionTerm
NSO
The other US stock-option type. Ordinary income tax on exercise, but more flexible than ISOs (can be granted to contractors, advisors, etc.).
- Glossary· Inflated ratingsTerm
Leniency bias
Manager tendency to rate reports more positively than justified. The single most common rater bias in performance reviews; calibration sessions exist largely to counter it.
- Glossary· ICT visaTerm
Intra-company transfer
Work permit category that lets multinationals move employees between offices in different countries. UK, EU Blue Card, US L-1, India ICT all exist with varying rules.
- Glossary· Triggered by life eventTerm
Lifecycle survey
Surveys tied to lifecycle moments (30-day new hire, 1-year anniversary, exit). Higher response rates and more actionable than annual surveys.
- Glossary· Handing decision rights downTerm
Authority transfer
The deliberate act of moving a decision from a leader to a team or individual — and making that move legible. The opposite of 'delegation' that quietly stays a check-in.
- Glossary· Pipeline Passage 1Term
First-time manager
The IC-to-manager transition — the hardest and most under-supported leadership move. Where the most leadership pipeline investment pays back.
- Glossary· Quantitative measures corruptTerm
Campbell's Law
Donald Campbell's variant of Goodhart: the more a quantitative social indicator is used for decision-making, the more it will distort and corrupt the process it monitors.
- Glossary· Promoting by title without rigorTerm
Title inflation
Awarding senior titles without matching scope or compensation. Cheap short-term retention move; expensive long-term levelling debt.
- Glossary· Start from the press releaseTerm
Working backwards
Amazon's product practice of writing the launch press release and FAQ before any code or design. Forces clarity on customer value before investment.
- Glossary· Voice dissent, then back the decisionTerm
Disagree and commit
An operating norm: once a decision is made, even dissenters commit fully to making it succeed. Standard at Amazon, Intel, and many high-execution cultures.
- Glossary· Retention bid after resignationTerm
Counter-offer
A revised offer made to retain an employee who has resigned. Industry data suggests 50%+ of counter-offer-accepters leave within 12 months anyway — usually a delaying tactic, not a fix.
- Glossary· Restriction on recruiting from former employerTerm
Non-solicit
Contractual restriction on a former employee recruiting their old colleagues or customers. Far more enforceable than non-competes, even where the latter is restricted.
- Glossary· Acquisition + terminationTerm
Double-trigger acceleration
More common acceleration: vesting accelerates only if both an acquisition occurs and the employee is terminated within a defined window. Standard for executive and senior-IC grants.
- Glossary· Annual workforce-wide listeningTerm
Engagement survey
The deep, annual survey of workforce engagement, manager effectiveness, and culture. Typically 30–60 questions. Action-planning quality matters more than the score.
- Glossary· Short-term internal projectTerm
Gig
A short-term, scoped piece of work staffed through the internal marketplace. Lets employees build skills outside their primary role without a permanent move.
- Glossary· Agreement between independent ratersTerm
Inter-rater reliability
A statistical measure of how consistently different interviewers or reviewers score the same input. Low IRR means your rubric is noise; the fix is calibration, not more interviews.
- Glossary· Commit-to-production durationTerm
Lead time for changes
A DORA metric: how long from code commit to running in production. Strong proxy for engineering health and operational risk.
- Glossary· Person connecting otherwise disconnected groupsTerm
Broker
From organisational network analysis: someone whose ties span structural holes between subgroups. Brokers move information and risk; losing one quietly degrades the org.
- Glossary· Part-time C-levelTerm
Fractional executive
An experienced executive (CFO, CPO, CTO) embedded part-time across one or more companies. Different from advisor — they hold accountability and operate.
- Glossary· Drive from the work itselfTerm
Intrinsic motivation
Motivation driven by autonomy, mastery, and purpose (Deci/Ryan, Pink) rather than external rewards. Stronger and more durable than incentives for complex knowledge work.
- Glossary· Per Employee Per MonthTerm
PEPM
Standard HR-tech pricing unit. Useful for comparing vendors, but TCO includes far more than PEPM.