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Culture & values

Turn your company values from posters into lived behaviors

Tie every recognition to a company value, measure culture health with rigor, and close the loop with Action Plans, turning culture into a daily advantage.

Empuls values-based recognition and culture-building tools

Trusted by Leading Brands

24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital
24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital
24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital

The challenge

When values are decorative, culture erodes

Most companies invest heavily in crafting their values and culture narrative, then watch it fade into background noise.

Challenge

Company values are posters on the wall, not lived behaviours

Employees recite values at onboarding. By month three they struggle to name two. Without daily reinforcement, values become corporate wallpaper rather than behavioral guardrails that guide decisions.

Challenge

No mechanism to reinforce values through recognition

Generic 'good job' recognition is warm but culturally inert. When awards aren't tied to specific values, employees receive no signal about which behaviors the organization truly rewards, widening the gap between stated values and lived culture.

Challenge

Culture surveys end with a report, not an action

The annual survey produces a 40-slide deck and a promise to 'take this seriously.' Six months later nothing has changed, and participation drops by a third the following year.

Challenge

No quantitative measure of culture health

Without eNPS trends, Mood-o-Meter signals, or values-recognition analytics, HR leaders can't build a business case for culture investment, or tell whether their interventions are working.

How Empuls helps

How Empuls makes culture measurable and reinforceable

Four integrated capabilities that connect recognition to values, surface culture signals continuously, and close the feedback loop with visible action.

1
Values-Based Recognition

Every award tagged to a company value

Empuls Spot Awards require the nominator to select which company values the recognized behavior exemplifies. This builds a real-time, searchable record of values in action and sends a powerful behavioral signal to everyone who sees the Wall of Fame.

Custom values taxonomy
Mandatory value tagging
Wall of Fame
Values analytics dashboard
Peer & manager awards
2
Pulse Surveys & Action Plans

Continuous culture measurement with closed-loop accountability

Replace the annual survey with short, frequent, science-backed Pulse Surveys. Automated Action Plans assign ownership and deadlines to each improvement area, so employees see feedback translate into change within weeks.

Configurable survey cadence
Validated question library
Segmented results by team
Automated Action Plans
Progress tracking dashboard
3
eNPS & Mood-o-Meter

A daily and monthly read on culture health

Empuls eNPS gives leadership a single, board-ready culture metric. The daily Mood-o-Meter adds granularity, surfacing early-warning signals in specific teams before they become retention problems. Both are anonymous by default, maximizing honest participation.

Monthly eNPS tracking
Daily Mood-o-Meter
Trend visualisations
Anonymous responses
Department-level drill-down
4
Wall of Fame

Make values-aligned behaviour publicly visible

The Wall of Fame is a curated, company-wide feed that puts your highest-impact contributors and most-demonstrated values front and center. Managers can feature standout awards, turning peer recognition into a cultural proof point the whole organization celebrates.

Company-wide visibility
Manager-featured awards
Values filter view
Social reactions & comments
Leaderboard integration

Capabilities

The full toolkit for a values-driven culture

Six capabilities that make your culture strategy measurable, accountable, and emotionally resonant.

Values-Based Spot Awards

Every Spot Award is tagged to company values at nomination. Over time this builds a searchable dataset showing which values are most reinforced, and which are being ignored.

Custom Values Taxonomy

Import your existing values framework or build one in Empuls. Create sub-values, behaviors, and descriptions so nominators know exactly what each value looks like in practice.

eNPS Tracking

A single monthly question ('How likely are you to recommend this organization as a place to work?') delivers a board-ready culture health score with trend lines showing whether your People initiatives are moving the needle.

Mood-o-Meter Check-ins

A daily one-tap sentiment signal that aggregates anonymously into team heatmaps. HR can spot a morale dip in a specific team before it becomes a retention risk, acting in days, not quarters.

Wall of Fame

An always-on recognition showcase that puts your values front and center. Filter by value, team, or period to surface behaviors your culture needs to amplify, and share it in all-hands slides with one click.

Action Plans with Accountability

Pulse Survey results auto-generate recommended Action Plans with suggested owners and timelines. Managers get prompts to update progress; employees can see plan status, closing the loop that makes the next survey worth completing.

Customer stories

5,000+ companies use Empuls to build cultures people don’t want to leave. Here’s what they’re saying.

One rewards program for every country our people work in

Empuls gave us a single recognition program that feels local everywhere. The Cost-of-Living Index keeps awards fair across geographies. A marketplace spanning 150+ countries, 40 languages, and AI nudges keep participation high. What was our hardest engagement problem is now our easiest.

Sr Compensation Partner, Western Digital

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

The mechanism is behavioral reinforcement at the point of public visibility. When a peer nominates a colleague for 'Customer Obsession' and the Wall of Fame broadcasts it to 500 employees, three things happen: the recipient is rewarded, the nominator models the behavior, and the broader team sees a concrete example of that value in practice. Over time the feed becomes a living, searchable definition of company culture that outperforms any handbook.