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The MangoApps Glossary

Opinionated definitions for the terms shaping frontline work, employee experience, internal communications, and AI at work — written by operators, not encyclopedias.

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Agentic AI describes systems that don't just respond to a prompt — they take actions. Fill a form, update a ticket, notify a...

An AI agent is a scoped software worker that pursues a goal — not a single answer — across tools and data. It acts under a...

An AI copilot is a role-aware assistant that lives inside the tools an employee already uses — the intranet, the scheduling...

AI governance is the framework a company uses to decide what AI tools are allowed to do, who's accountable for their outputs,...

AI-Powered Intranet

An AI-powered intranet is the shift from "search returns links" to "ask returns answers." The front door is a conversation, the...

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Communication at work is the practice of moving information reliably — announcements, decisions, expectations, problems...

Communications Cascade

A communications cascade is the pattern where corporate leadership sends a message to the next management layer, which rebriefs...

Compliance is the practice of ensuring employee behavior meets regulatory, contractual, and internal-policy requirements — and...

Compliance Training Automation

Compliance training automation is the software-driven process for assigning, tracking, and evidencing required training (HIPAA,...

Corporate Communications

Corporate communications is the broad function that owns how the company communicates — to employees, investors,...

Crisis Communication

Crisis communication is the set of practices and infrastructure a company uses to communicate during incidents — safety events,...

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Deskless Worker

A deskless worker is any employee whose job happens without a desk, a company laptop, or a fixed workstation. They're roughly...

Deskless Worker vs Frontline Worker

In practice, "deskless" and "frontline" are used interchangeably and usually point to the same population. The useful...

Digital Employee Journey

A digital employee journey is the employee-experience design expressed through the company's software — the preboarding email,...

Digital Workplace

A digital workplace is the full set of digital tools and experiences employees use to get work done — intranet, collaboration,...

Digital Workplace vs Modern Intranet

A modern intranet is a specific surface — typically the home-base destination where employees get company news, find policies,...

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Employee App vs Intranet

An employee app is a phone-first tool shaped around what an hourly or deskless worker needs during a shift. An intranet is a...

Employee Engagement Platform

An employee engagement platform is the integrated system for measuring, shaping, and acting on how connected employees feel...

Employee Engagement vs Employee Experience

Employee engagement is the outcome — how connected, motivated, and committed employees feel. Employee experience is the...

Employee Experience Platform

An employee experience platform (EXP) unifies the moments that matter across an employee's life with the company — from...

Employee Journey Mapping

Employee journey mapping is a service-design practice applied to the employee experience. It identifies the moments that matter...

Employee Net Promoter Score

Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) is a single-question engagement metric: "On a scale of 0–10, how likely are you to recommend...

Employee Recognition Program

An employee recognition program is a structured practice for acknowledging good work — peer-to-peer, manager-to-report,...

Employee Voice Program

An employee voice program is a coordinated set of channels and practices that let employees share what they see, think,...

Engagement is the observable connection between an employee and their work — how much discretionary effort they're putting...

eNPS (employee Net Promoter Score) measures how likely employees are to recommend their company as a place to work. CSAT...

Enterprise Search (RAG)

Enterprise search with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) answers questions by fetching the company's own content first, then...

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Feedback is the practice of giving and receiving information about work — what's going well, what isn't, what should change. At...

Frontline Communication

Frontline communication is how a company reaches the 80% of its people who don't live in email. It's targeted, mobile-first,...

Frontline Employee App

A frontline employee app is a phone-first application that gives hourly, field, and deskless workers access to their schedule,...

Frontline Worker

A frontline worker is any employee whose job happens away from a desk — on a production floor, in a patient room, behind a...

Frontline Worker Engagement

Frontline worker engagement is the set of practices and metrics that measure — and move — how connected, heard, and supported a...

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HR Case Management

HR case management is a structured system for handling employee questions, requests, and issues — with routing, SLAs, an...

HRIS (human resources information system) is the system of record for employee data — names, roles, pay, managers, benefits...

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Internal Communications

Internal communications is how a company talks to itself: news, announcements, leadership messages, safety alerts, and the...

Internal vs Corporate Communications

Internal communications serves one audience: employees. Corporate communications serves the broader set — employees, press,...

An intranet is the internal website — and increasingly the internal workspace — that gives employees one place to find company...

Intranet vs Digital Workplace

An intranet is a content and communication destination — news, documents, people, policies. A digital workplace is the...

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Knowledge Base vs Knowledge Management

A knowledge base is a tool — a searchable repository of articles, FAQs, and procedures. Knowledge management is the ongoing...

Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is the practice of capturing, organizing, and making accessible what a company knows — its...

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An LMS (learning management system) is built around assigned, tracked, completed training — the compliance engine. An...

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Mass Notification System

A mass notification system pushes an urgent message to a large audience across multiple channels (push, SMS, voice, email,...

Mass Notification vs Crisis Alert

A mass notification system is the technical capability to reach a large audience quickly across multiple channels. A crisis...

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Onboarding is the 90-day stretch between "accepted offer" and "fully contributing team member." It is the single...

Onboarding Automation

Onboarding automation is the practice of replacing the manual scheduling, paperwork, and handoff steps of a new hire's...

Onboarding vs Preboarding

Preboarding is the period between offer acceptance and day one of work. Onboarding is the period from day one through roughly...

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Performance Management Platform

A performance management platform is the software that supports how a company sets goals, gives feedback, conducts reviews,...

Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of composing instructions for language models — and, increasingly, the supporting context,...

Pulse Survey Platform

A pulse survey platform runs short, frequent surveys (usually 3–7 questions, every 2–6 weeks) to catch sentiment shifts that...

Pulse Survey vs Annual Survey

An annual survey is a deep, comprehensive instrument run once a year — typically 30–60 questions, multiple dimensions...

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Recognition is the practice of naming specific good work so it gets seen, remembered, and repeated. It is separate from...

Recognition vs Engagement

Recognition is the act of acknowledging good work — peer shout-outs, manager praise, awards, anniversaries. Engagement is the...

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Scheduling is the operational heart of any business built on hourly labor — who works when, which shifts get covered, and...

Shift Swap Workflow

A shift swap workflow is the operational process for how one employee hands off a scheduled shift to an eligible coworker. Done...

An SOP (standard operating procedure) hub is the single, owned place where a company's step-by-step procedures live — how...

SOP Hub vs Knowledge Base

An SOP hub holds "how we do this" — step-by-step procedures tied to specific workflows, roles, and compliance obligations....

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the practice of identifying, developing, and tracking potential successors for critical roles across...

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Training is the practice of building the skills and knowledge employees need to do their jobs — onboarding,...

Two-Way Communication

Two-way communication is the practice of not just sending messages to employees but hearing and responding to what they send...

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Employee wellbeing is the practice of actively protecting and improving the physical, mental, and financial health of...

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