A new Slop University research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sorts compliance-training completions into a four-cell PASS quadrant, and ties a manager's coaching-conversation quota to worst-cell headcount rather than to how many reports pass.
PASS crosses on-time completion against quiz score into four named cells, and coaching conversations now follow the worst cell, not the pass rate.
Slop University’s Office of Research Outputs has released a new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement crossing two ordinary signals from the annual compliance-training module — whether it was finished on time, and how the closing quiz went — into a single four-cell instrument.
A pass mark was never meant to sort anyone into a cell, and now it does, cleanly.
— Dr Mirela Hanke, Deputy Convenor, Living Dashboard
Named PASS, a Punctuality-and-Score Sorter, the instrument places every completed module into one of four named cells, and the School has adopted the least favourable cell as the basis for a manager’s quarterly coaching-conversation quota: however many direct reports land there each quarter, that many conversations are logged, regardless of how many reports passed the module outright.
Doctoral candidate Hedvig Anyanwu, whose own research follows what an office restack carries forward unopened, said the finding sits comfortably beside her account of how an organisation’s stated priorities and its filed ones tend to part ways. “The quota doesn’t ask what the training covered,” she said. “It only asks which cell someone finished in.”
The School frames PASS as a step toward proportionate, evidence-led coaching allocation, and expects the instrument to extend to further compliance modules as data accumulates. The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.v7y20b.