A guide to reading the data in the Risk Map
The Risk Map is a tool that can be used to dive into the details of a survey and get a deeper picture distributed across multiple departments and survey areas. This article will explain and elaborate on how to read and interpret the information in the Risk Map, focusing on the following points:
The Risk Map helps you to identify areas across the departments and company which are a potential risk of stress, work injuries, sick leave or other things for the employees and should therefore be prioritized. On the other hand, the Risk Map can also be used to find the company's key drivers, i.e. what works well in the company that you should continue doing.
It is recommended to read Introduction to the Risk Map to better understand this article.
Color Coding - Resources and Improvements
At first glance, the Risk Map can be an overwhelming image of a lot of numbers and data. However, you can quickly get a good overview of the various data and use the Risk Map as an indispensable tool. The Risk Mappet is divided into colours, which indicate which categories are respectively low, medium and high risk in each department.
The colors can be interpreted as follows:
🟢 LOW RISK - These are resources at your workplace
🟡 MEDIUM RISK - There is room for improvement
🔴 HIGH RISK - Improvements should be made immediately
Some categories in Woba are extra "sensitive". This is a category with zero tolerance, such as offensive actions. If there is just one negative answer to a question in this category, it will appear as red and therefore high risk. This is because any reporting of such behavior should be interpreted as high risk and something that needs to be prioritized for immediate improvement.
You can click a color in the Risk Map to see the distribution of scores on questions in the corresponding category. Read more about diving into the Risk Map.
Rows and columns in the Risk Map
The easiest way to read the Risk Map is to take one column and one row at a time. The rows are the fields horizontally along the table, and the columns are the fields vertically along the table. Below, each row and column is elaborated.
Row #1 (Overall Category): The top row of the Risk Map shows the overall categories.
Row #2 (subcategories): Shows the headings for the columns below. Part of these are the sub-categories for the scores displayed.
Row #3 - #x (data): The remaining rows in the Risk Map shows data for the associated subcategories from row #2. This means that in these rows you can see departments, participation, total score, change since the last examination, as well as scores for the subordinate categories.
Column #1 (departments): Shows which department the data in the columns next to belongs to. The top row in the first column shows the total scores for the entire company. These are results from all departments or selected filtering combined into one score. Both total participation, total score, change since the last survey, and scores for all categories are displayed based on this.
Column #2 (participation): Shows the percentage of employees who have answered the survey, from the department in column #1. In addition, you can also see how many employees have answered the survey, out of the total number of employees in the department.
Column #3 (total score): Shows the total score for each department. The total score is a result based on the scores from all questions and categories. Next to the total score, either a green or red number is displayed in brackets. This number indicates how much the average for the department varies from the total score average across the entire company. If the average for the department is below the company average, it will be a red negative number. Conversely, if the average for the department is above the company's average, it will be a green positive number.
Column #4 (change since last survey): Shows change in relation to a
selected benchmark survey. This makes it possible to compare the results of a survey across departments, with a similar previous survey - e.g. an APV from two different years. To get data to show in this column, select a Benchmark survey in the filtering that you want to compare to.
Column #5 - #x (scores): Shows total scores for the category for the associated department. All the colored fields in the Risk Map are interactive and if you click on them, you get a lot of in-depth information and shortcuts to do a number of things, such as download recommendations and create action plans. If there is a (-) in a field next to a department, it is because there are too few responses for the results from the departments to be displayed separately – this is due to the anonymity limit for the survey.
Tip: Read more about how the data in the interactive fields should be read: → Dive into the Risk Map