A Year With the AI Boss: Nordvik Region and Hansa Mutual

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Learning objectives

After the lesson the participant can:

Reconstruct the order in which the two organisations introduced their instruments and explain why the order mattered.
Match each failure of the year to the mechanism that found it and the recorded decision that answered it.
Compare how the delegation profiles of the two organisations moved over the year.
Run a quarterly review of delegation, decisions, contests and oversight with workers' representatives.

Key concepts

Order of the instruments: Commission, inventory, profiles, records, and only then measured oversight and reversibility tests. Where the order was reversed, as when a wave went live before its managers were trained, the cost appeared in the next record.
Found by a designed mechanism: Most of the year's failures were found by a sample, a disparate-impact test, a contestation, a reversibility test, an oversight record with seeds or a routine trigger; none was found by a system's own account of what it did.
Sideways and inward: Nordvik's profiles moved sideways: more units, more constraints, no higher degree. Hansa's moved inward: the same degrees, with more of the conditions that make them true written in.
Quarterly review with the representatives: A shared view each quarter of what has been delegated, decided and contested and whether oversight held, generated from the records, with no figure about a person and failures read first.

Interactive exercises

Do them here and get feedback at once. Choose a card and then where it belongs, or drag it.

Interactive exercise 1 · Put in order

From negotiation to a closed contest

Put these events of Nordvik Region's first quarter with ShiftWise routes in the order in which Chapter 30 dates them.

Interactive exercise 2 · Match

What went wrong and how it was found

Match each failure of the year with the designed mechanism that found it, as the chapter's table records.

Teaching plan

10 min	The teacher introduces the four people and the starting point of each organisation in November 2026.
25 min	Timeline work: four groups take one quarter each, list its records and decisions on a wall chart, and present what was found and what answered it.
15 min	Reading of OVR-NR-ROS-2027-2: participants identify the finding about holiday stand-ins and why the fault lay in a training rule attached to the wrong object.
30 min	Exercise: a role-played quarterly review with function owner, line manager, representative and data protection officer.
10 min	Debrief on how the four roles changed and on what neither organisation has yet solved.

Discussion

When approvals of draft letters fell below 30 seconds in the holidays, Jana Petersen lowered the agent's budget without waiting for the evaluation plan's stop rule. What does that decision show about where authority over agents should sit?
Thomas Brandt's work moved from negotiating agreements to negotiating classes of change. What skills and information does a representative need for that work?
Two failures were found late: a fallback that had fallen behind the system and a checkpoint running at a higher degree than its profile. Why are these the hardest kind to see?

Written exercise

Exercise · 30 minutes

A quarterly review with the representatives

In groups of four, take the roles of function owner, line manager, workers' representative and data protection officer, and hold the quarterly review for one quarter of the year at Nordvik Region or Hansa Mutual, or for your own organisation. Build the pack from the records named in the chapter: profile versions changed, decision record counts by class, contestation records with times to answer, the oversight record and the last reversibility test. Check that no figure concerns a person. Read failures first, each with its answer or an open status. Compare one profile with its practice. Classify two pending changes under the agreed change classes, letting the representative move one up a class. Record the outcome and the representative's position.

Deliverable: A one-page review record: pack contents, aggregation check, failures with answers or open status, one profile compared with practice, classified changes and the representatives' position.

Your work

Self-test

Choose an answer to see whether it is right, or open the answer below each question.

What did the union for municipal and care workers change in Nordvik Region's open-shift offers during the negotiation of January 2027?
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A. Offers go out in a published rotating order, in place of going to everyone with first acceptance winning
First acceptance rewarded whoever could answer a phone fastest and favoured staff without children at home. A fixed rotation that draws on nothing about the person is not a ranking, so the award stays outside Article 22.
What did the second oversight record, OVR-NR-ROS-2027-2, find about holiday stand-ins?
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C. They found half the seeded faults, and three of six had not taken the oversight module
AIDR-0630 had tied training to units going live, not to the approver role. AIDR-0636 requires the module before anyone approves a roster and makes deputies who plan a week by hand first choice as stand-ins.
How did the main delegation profiles of the two organisations move during the year, according to the chapter?
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D. Nordvik's moved sideways and Hansa's inward; none moved upward for decisions about a person
Nordvik added units and constraints without a higher degree; Hansa kept its degrees and wrote in more of the conditions that make them true. Both kept M3 Consequence below Level 2 Supervised throughout.