To ensure the security and confidentiality of your data, it’s essential to understand the access levels for each role. Below is a detailed breakdown of permissions for each role.

Administration

Account administrator

Overview: The Account administrator has the highest access across the platform, managing all account settings except Performance.

Permissions	Access
View and manage employee data	✔
Manage account settings	✔
Create surveys	✔
Manage survey settings	✔
Manage performance cycles
Manage goals (new)	✔
Manage goals (classic)
Assign roles to other users	✔
Add survey participants	✔
Issue invitations and reset responses	✔
Export survey participants	✔
Create survey reports	✔
View all survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔
View the Action Dashboard	✔
Export survey participants	✔
Share reports	✔
Administer Skills coach	✔
Edit career paths and competencies	✔
View development reports	✔

Employee data administrator

Overview: Manages employee data without access to other parts of Culture Amp.

Permissions	Access
View and manage employee data	✔
Activate and deactivate employees	✔
Configure HRIS integrations and trigger syncs	✔
Create or manage surveys and performance cycles and associated reports
Manage goals
Access raw data
Request feedback

Surveys

Surveys administrator

Overview: Full access to create and manage all surveys and survey reports.

Note: Surveys administrators and Survey admin can export survey participants, but not with demographic data unless they also have the Employee data administrator role.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data
Create surveys	✔
Manage survey settings	✔
Assign other Survey admin	✔
Add survey participants	✔
Issue invitations and reset responses	✔
Export survey participants	✔
Export survey participants with demographic data
Create survey reports	✔
View all survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔
View the Action Dashboard	✔
Export survey participants	✔
Share reports	✔

Survey admin

Overview: Survey admins have access to specific surveys they’ve been invited to, but they cannot create new surveys. There are two levels of Survey admin access: Overall and Support only.

Access level	Permissions	Access
Overall	Manage account settings or employee data
	Create surveys
	Manage survey settings	✔
	Assign other Survey admin	✔
	Add survey participants	✔
	Issue invitations and reset responses	✔
	Export survey participants	✔
	Export survey participants with demographic data
	Create survey reports	✔
	View survey reports and add viewers/owners	✔
	View the Action Dashboard	✔
	Export survey participants	✔
	Share reports	✔
Support only	Issue invitations and reset responses	✔

Survey creator

Overview: Survey creators can create new surveys and manage their settings. They are automatically designated as survey admins for their created surveys, gaining full access to survey admin features. Their access can also be restricted to specific demographics.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data
Create surveys	✔

Survey HR business partner

Overview: Survey HR business partners can access the survey's reports page to see the list of reports and who has access, but they cannot preview or access the report data unless they first add themselves as report viewers. They cannot create new surveys, access the administrator reports or share existing reports.

Permissions	Access
View the survey's reports page	✔
Preview survey report data (only after adding themselves as a report viewer)*	✔*
View the Administrator report
View the Action Dashboard	✔
Add report viewers/owners	✔
Bulk import sharing permissions
Create and share reports
Create surveys

Other survey roles

Survey comment replier

Overview: Can reply publicly to comments left on surveys.

Permissions	Access
Reply to survey comments	✔

Survey data analyst

Overview: Can extract raw data from surveys where Raw Data Extract has been enabled on the survey.

Permissions	Access
Access to survey raw data (if enabled)	✔
View an audit log of all raw data extracts downloaded from surveys	✔

Performance

Performance administrator

Overview: Manages performance cycles, including reviews and self-reflections, but cannot access employee data or manage account settings.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data
Create performance cycles	✔
Configure cycle settings	✔
View performance cycles	✔
Complete reviews and self-reflections on behalf of others	✔
Create, share and view calibration views	✔
Submit performance feedback requests and share feedback on behalf of managers	✔
Manage goals (new)
Manage goals (classic)	✔

Performance HR business partner

Overview: Access to performance data within their assigned departments only. They cannot manage account settings and employee data or create performance cycles and configure their settings.

Permissions	Access
Manage account settings or employee data
Create new cycles
Configure cycle settings
View performance cycles	✔
Complete reviews and self-reflections on behalf of others	✔
Create, share and view calibration views	✔*
Submit performance feedback requests and share feedback on behalf of managers	✔
Manage goals (classic)	✔
Manage goals (new)

* Perform HRBPs cannot view calibration views (unless shared) if the view includes performance reviews outside their scope, such as reviews from other departments.

Develop

Develop administrator

Overview: Manages aspects of employee development without accessing sensitive data.

Permissions	Access
Manage performance cycles or goals
Manage account settings or employee data
Manage surveys and associated reports
View development reports	✔
Administer skills coach	✔
Edit career paths and competencies	✔

Goals

Group goal creator (Goals new)

Overview: Can create and manage goals for specific org units (e.g., department).

Permissions	Access
Create and manage goals for specific org units, e.g. department.	✔

Other Goal roles

Department goal creator (Goals classic)

Overview: Can create and manage goals for their assigned departments.

Permissions	Access
Create and manage goals for their assigned departments.	✔

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