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Process Object Glossary
98 data objects produced and consumed across the Lock process library. Each one names its purpose, minimum fields, and system of record.
Compensation System
- Job Architecture CharterMaintain Job and Career Architecture
Defines purpose, scope, principles, decision uses, authority, and evidence.
- Approved Job and Career ArchitectureMaintain Job and Career Architecture
Provides the authoritative family, track, level, factor, reference-role, and movement model.
- Role Mapping RecordMaintain Job and Career Architecture
Connects an approved role version to the architecture with evidence and authority.
- Architecture Decision RecordMaintain Job and Career Architecture
Preserves requests, evidence, decisions, versions, and connected effects.
- Compensation Review CharterReview Employee Compensation
Controls question, scope, authority, period, evidence, access, and qualified review.
- Verified Compensation HistoryReview Employee Compensation
Provides the reconciled component-level compensation record.
- Compensation Review RecordReview Employee Compensation
Preserves the complete analysis and comparable options for decision.
- Compensation Decision IntakeReview Employee Compensation
Transfers the exact review package into a separate governed decision.
- Authorized Decision DocketMake and Communicate a Compensation Decision
Controls the exact review package, authority, budget, timing, and required approvals.
- Authorized Compensation DecisionMake and Communicate a Compensation Decision
Provides the single authoritative outcome for communication and implementation.
- Compensation Communication RecordMake and Communicate a Compensation Decision
Preserves what was communicated, when, by whom, and what requires response.
- Compensation Implementation RecordMake and Communicate a Compensation Decision
Reconciles the authorized decision to every affected system and output.
- Compensation Structure Control RecordOperate Pay Structures and Equity Controls
Defines the active structure, operating envelope, owners, evidence, reviews, and known conditions.
- Compensation Structure Health ReviewOperate Pay Structures and Equity Controls
Combines structural, decision, market, exception, data, and implementation signals.
- Qualified Consistency and Equity ReviewOperate Pay Structures and Equity Controls
Preserves the controlled question, method, findings, uncertainty, privilege, and remediation.
- Authorized Pay Structure ChangeOperate Pay Structures and Equity Controls
Provides the exact approved structural change and transition controls.
Hiring System
- Business NeedApprove Workforce Need and Headcount
Anchors the request to work and an operating outcome.
- Capacity and Capability AssessmentApprove Workforce Need and Headcount
Makes demand, supply, duration, assumptions, and consequences inspectable.
- Workforce DecisionApprove Workforce Need and Headcount
Records the chosen response and authority to act.
- Workforce NeedDefine Role and Success Profile
Records the business need, authority, constraints, and timing that initiate role design.
- Role Success ProfileDefine Role and Success Profile
Provides the controlled definition consumed across hiring and subsequent management processes.
- Selection Evidence PlanDefine Role and Success Profile
Maps each material criterion to a proportionate and consistent evidence method.
- Compensation Decision BriefEstablish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters
Anchors the pay decision to the approved role and context.
- Internal and Market Alignment RecordEstablish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters
Preserves comparisons, sources, matches, dates, limitations, and rationale.
- Approved Compensation and Employment ParametersEstablish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters
Provides the authoritative hiring and offer boundary.
- Authorized RequisitionOpen and Source the Role
Controls the opening and all upstream versions.
- Sourcing PlanOpen and Source the Role
Controls audiences, channels, messages, resources, assumptions, and review rules.
- Candidate RecordOpen and Source the Role
Maintains source, consent, status, communications, eligibility, and authoritative role context.
- Controlled Assessment PlanAssess and Select Candidates
Defines criteria, methods, anchors, sequence, decision rules, operators, and exceptions.
- Candidate Evidence RecordAssess and Select Candidates
Preserves authorized observations, scores, sources, deviations, and completeness.
- Selection DecisionAssess and Select Candidates
Records the authorized outcome and evidence rationale.
- Authorized Offer RecordApprove and Issue the Offer
Connects the selected candidate to current role, parameter, budget, and authority versions.
- Approved Offer PackageApprove and Issue the Offer
Preserves the exact authorized candidate-facing commitments.
- Offer DispositionApprove and Issue the Offer
Records the candidate response, final version, reasons where voluntarily provided, and next route.
- Onboarding Control RecordOnboard the New Hire
Connects accepted commitments, role, person, manager, start conditions, owners, and open items.
- Role Readiness PlanOnboard the New Hire
Defines staged outcomes, conditions, learning, relationships, systems, evidence, and support.
- Onboarding Transition RecordOnboard the New Hire
Preserves the readiness decision, evidence, continuing ownership, open actions, and feedback.
Lock Method
- Process Evidence RequestDiscover and Synthesize Process Evidence
Defines why and where evidence is needed.
- Upstream Evidence InventoryDiscover and Synthesize Process Evidence
Records reusable material and access gaps without duplicating source identity.
- Process Evidence PacketDiscover and Synthesize Process Evidence
Provides a versioned, reviewed basis for Lock synthesis.
- System Architecture CharterArchitect a People Management System
Defines the authorized system question and boundary.
- Current and Target System ModelArchitect a People Management System
Makes system components, interfaces, conditions, and intended architecture inspectable.
- System Gap and RoadmapArchitect a People Management System
Turns architecture into governed capability increments.
- Policy Design CharterDesign and Govern a People Policy
Defines the authorized policy question and review boundary.
- Policy VersionDesign and Govern a People Policy
Preserves authoritative policy text, scope, ownership, dependencies, and lineage.
- Policy Operating MapDesign and Govern a People Policy
Connects policy to the mechanisms that implement it.
- Policy Review RecordDesign and Govern a People Policy
Connects operating evidence and changed requirements to an authorized disposition.
Manager System
- Manager Context MapEstablish the Manager Operating Role
Defines the team, work, processes, systems, dependencies, risks, and boundaries.
- Manager Decision and Interface MapEstablish the Manager Operating Role
Connects recurring decisions to authority, evidence, participants, escalation, and receiving owners.
- Manager Operating CharterEstablish the Manager Operating Role
Provides the authoritative manager-role mechanism.
- Manager Role Health ReviewEstablish the Manager Operating Role
Preserves evidence, diagnosis, decisions, improvement routes, and version effects.
- Team Cadence ArchitectureRun the Team Operating Cadence
Defines the complete set of recurring operating mechanisms and their contracts.
- Team Operating StateRun the Team Operating Cadence
Provides the current inspectable state of outcomes, work, flow, capacity, dependencies, decisions, risks, and guardrails.
- Team Decision RecordRun the Team Operating Cadence
Preserves the decision, evidence, authority, rationale, conditions, dissent, and review.
- Cadence Health ReviewRun the Team Operating Cadence
Balances operating value, attention cost, experience, defects, and improvement decisions.
- Authorized Demand PortfolioManage Team Capacity and Priorities
Provides one current view of valid planned, active, queued, recurring, interrupt, and hidden work.
- Usable Capacity and Constraint ModelManage Team Capacity and Priorities
Represents responsible delivery capacity, bottlenecks, variability, and uncertainty.
- Authorized Team Commitment PlanManage Team Capacity and Priorities
Records priorities, accepted and displaced work, limits, sequence, dependencies, and authority.
- Capacity and Priority ReviewManage Team Capacity and Priorities
Connects plan assumptions, actual operation, guardrails, learning, and improvement routes.
- Decision BriefEnable Decisions and Escalation
Defines the bounded question and why a decision is needed.
- Decision Authority RecordEnable Decisions and Escalation
Maps the decision to authority, participants, escalation, response, and fallback.
- Authorized Decision RecordEnable Decisions and Escalation
Provides the authoritative decision state and implementation contract.
- Decision Outcome ReviewEnable Decisions and Escalation
Connects implementation and outcomes to adaptation and decision-system learning.
- Manager-System Review CharterReview Manager-System Health
Defines the question, uses, scope, criteria, evidence, safeguards, and authority.
- Manager-System Evidence RecordReview Manager-System Health
Provides the balanced longitudinal evidence and its limitations.
- Manager-System Health DiagnosisReview Manager-System Health
Preserves findings across person, role, authority, work, support, process, system, and organization.
- Authorized Manager-System Improvement PlanReview Manager-System Health
Connects supported causes to reciprocal actions, owners, resources, safeguards, and verification.
Operating System
- Practice Design BriefDesign and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Anchors the practice to an operating need and defines its boundary.
- Practice SpecificationDesign and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Defines the repeatable human mechanism and controlled variation.
- Practice Validation RecordDesign and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Preserves scenarios, participant evidence, defects, decisions, and conditions.
- Practice Health ReviewDesign and Validate a Recurring Human Practice
Connects operating evidence to support, redesign, continuation, or retirement.
- Design BriefRedesign Work and Workflow
Controls the outcome, scope, baseline, constraints, and design criteria.
- Workflow SpecificationRedesign Work and Workflow
Defines the future operating mechanism.
- Performance and Improvement RecordRedesign Work and Workflow
Connects observed operation to controlled changes.
- System Decision BriefSelect a Business System
Controls the need, alternatives, authority, boundaries, consequences, and evidence standard.
- Requirements and Evidence RecordSelect a Business System
Connects each operating need to tests, option evidence, scores, gaps, and commitments.
- System DecisionSelect a Business System
Preserves the authorized choice and implementation contract.
- Implementation CharterImplement a Business System
Controls mandate, scope, ownership, economics, governance, and success.
- Requirements and Configuration TraceImplement a Business System
Connects approved operating requirements to configuration, testing, and accepted deviations.
- Acceptance and Handoff RecordImplement a Business System
Preserves release evidence, accepted conditions, ownership, open items, and operating approval.
- Process Control RecordOperate and Improve a Process
Identifies the authoritative operating mechanism and its governance.
- Exception RecordOperate and Improve a Process
Preserves operating failures, responses, and recurring-pattern evidence.
- Improvement RecordOperate and Improve a Process
Connects evidence, decisions, tests, versions, and learning.
Performance and Development System
- Outcome Alignment BriefAlign Role Outcomes and Expectations
Anchors the agreement to the current role and operating context.
- Role Outcome AgreementAlign Role Outcomes and Expectations
Provides the authoritative shared definition of outcomes, operating expectations, evidence, and support.
- Outcome Agreement ReviewAlign Role Outcomes and Expectations
Preserves changed context, decisions, rationale, effective dates, and notices.
- Check-in RecordRun Manager Check-ins and Feedback
Preserves proportionate continuity across evidence, feedback, decisions, and commitments.
- Controlled HandoffRun Manager Check-ins and Feedback
Transfers a matter that exceeds routine check-in authority.
- Check-in Pattern ReviewRun Manager Check-ins and Feedback
Synthesizes longitudinal operating evidence without replacing formal decisions.
- Governed Review RecordReview Performance and Contribution
Defines the applicable expectations, evidence, context, support, changes, and gaps.
- Approved Contribution ReviewReview Performance and Contribution
Preserves the authorized whole-record conclusion and its limits.
- Review HandoffReview Performance and Contribution
Transfers only authorized forward implications without making the receiving decision.
- Development Need BriefBuild and Operate a Development Plan
Anchors activity to a material capability and operating or career outcome.
- Approved Development PlanBuild and Operate a Development Plan
Controls evidence, methods, work application, resources, support, guardrails, and review.
- Development DispositionBuild and Operate a Development Plan
Records what the evidence supports and what it does not decide.
- Talent Decision CharterMake a Progression or Talent Decision
Defines the precise decision, opportunity status, authority, available outcomes, and boundaries.
- Talent Evidence RecordMake a Progression or Talent Decision
Preserves the relevant standard, evidence, aspiration, opportunity context, gaps, and access.
- Authorized Talent DecisionMake a Progression or Talent Decision
Records the exact evidence-based outcome and what remains for downstream authority.