If you’re setting up the system and have a traditional hierarchy within your organization, it’s safe to say at least one employee will not have a manager. In most cases, this is the CEO. In a flat organization, you may have several employees that do not report to a manager.

Since much of the functionality of the Small Improvements toolset is optimized for the manager – direct report relationship, employees without managers might require some extra attention.

The CEO’s lack of manager will override some visibility settings in the 360 cycle. If you’ve decided to hide the 360 feedback from reviewees participating in a cycle, and display feedback only to an employee’s manager, our system will recognize that the CEO doesn’t have a manager and display the feedback to them in full.

To ensure you’d like to keep the feedback from a CEO private, you can opt to display feedback to reviewees, but can still hide the identity. In this case, the CEO will be treated like any other employee and see their feedback anonymously.

If you need to setup a cycle where the reviewees should not see feedback, but want the CEO to participate, we’d recommend setting up a separate, designated cycle for just this user. You can tailor the visibility settings to the particular position the top of the org structure is in.