"Most IR crises were visible 90 days before they happened. The workforce knew. Management didn't." Find out where you stand today.
You are here because something is bothering you. It may be a feeling, a pattern, or a situation that is hard to articulate — but you know it is there. We will help you decode it, quantify it, and tell you exactly what to do about it.
HOW TO USE THIS TOOL
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Fill all five sections below — in order.Start with Section A and work down to Section E. Sections A and B are mandatory. C, D and E significantly improve the depth of your report.
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Upload relevant documents in Section E below.OT reports, absenteeism records, accident reports, Safety / Canteen / Transport Committee minutes, grievance records, wage settlement letters, union notices, charter of demands, conciliation proceedings, labour court cases, CLRA audits, show-cause notices — upload as many as you have. The AI extracts specific facts from each document to sharpen your analysis.
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Work through the IR Incidents checklist in Section D below.28 specific IR incidents across five categories — Union & Wage, Industrial Action, Workforce & Operations, Legal & Compliance, and Safety & Welfare. Tick everything that applies — even resolved or minor incidents have cost and legal implications the tool will surface.
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YOUR REPORT INCLUDES:
IR Risk ScoreCost of InactionRisk PredictionsBenchmarking30/60/90 Day PlanAI Strategic AnalysisSenior Advisor Commentary
Section A — Organisation Profile
Enter your organisation details below.
Single plant / location: Enter the details for that plant or location only. Multiple plants / locations: Enter combined figures — total workforce, combined payroll and turnover across all locations. The assessment will reflect the overall IR health of the organisation.
Section B — IR Severity Rating
Rate the current severity level of your IR situation across these dimensions. Select the option that most accurately reflects where things stand today — not where you would like them to be. These ratings directly determine your IR Risk Score and cost calculations. Note: Specific incidents — strikes, go-slows, legal notices, clashes — are captured separately in Section D below.
How does management hear workforce sentiment — before it reaches the union?
Not what the union is doing — but the quality of the relationship itself.
Section C — Your Problem Statement
This is the most important section. Tell us why you are here — in your own words, in plain language. What is happening on the ground? What is keeping you up at night? What triggered you to take this assessment today? Write as you would speak — do not worry about structure or language. Your exact words will appear in the report and the AI will use them, alongside your Section B inputs and documents, to build your personalised problem statement and analysis.
🔒 What you write here is strictly confidential. Your exact words will appear verbatim in your report and will be used by the AI to personalise your analysis — they will not be shared, stored, or seen by anyone else.
Section D — Active IR Incidents
This section is different from Section B. Here is how to think about it:
Section B measured how bad things are — OT levels, absenteeism trend, union activity, grievance count, safety culture — rated on a scale.
Section D captures specific incidents that have actually occurred — things a union does when it is angry: strikes, go-slows, tool-downs, gherao, protests, clashes, sabotage — plus legal and compliance events that have been triggered.
Tick everything that applies — focus on the last 12 months. If an incident occurred more than 12 months ago and has been fully resolved with no ongoing impact, leave it unticked. If it occurred more than 12 months ago but is still active, unresolved, or has recurring implications — tick it.
Union & Wage
Industrial Action & Incidents
Workforce & Operations
Legal & Compliance
Safety & Welfare
Section E — Upload IR Documents (optional)
The more documents you upload, the more accurate and specific your report becomes. The AI reads each document and extracts relevant IR facts — dates, amounts, legal references, worker numbers — and incorporates them into your analysis. Nothing is stored after your session ends.
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e.g. OT reports · Absenteeism records · Grievance records · Safety committee minutes
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IR Risk Profile — Your Organisation
Maharashtra·29 Apr 2026·IR Sentinel AI v3.0🔒 Confidential
What your IR situation actually is — and what is driving it beneath the surface.
Your problem statement — in your own words
Active incidents and structured assessment highlights
HEW Model analysis — what the scores mean for your business
The causal chain: IR Practice Signals → Industrial Harmony → Business Outcomes
Industrial Harmony Drivers — what is broken and why it matters
Business Outcomes currently under threat
HEW Model™ — How IR Risk Impacts Business Outcomes
THE HEW STRATEGIC LENS
Your IR situation is not an IR problem. It is a Board-level business performance crisis.
Every outcome your leadership team is accountable for — profitability, growth, customer delivery, talent, Digital Transformation — is directly connected to the state of Industrial Harmony in your organisation. The section below shows you exactly which outcomes are under threat right now, what is driving each threat, and what it will cost you if nothing changes.
⚠ This is not a projection. This is your organisation today — and this is what is on the line.
Industrial Harmony Drivers — What is broken and why it matters
Business outcomes under threat
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The HEW Transformation Opportunity
Organisations that move their Industrial Harmony Index from below 35 to above 65 within 18 months — through deliberate Leadership Agility, Trust, Collaborative IR and Workforce Empowerment investment — consistently report: 15-25% productivity improvement, 30-40% reduction in absenteeism, 50%+ faster implementation of change initiatives, and a wage negotiation cycle that shifts from adversarial to structured dialogue. This is the business case for IR transformation — and it starts with this assessment.
Part 2 of 5
The Scorecard
Your scores on the four conditions that determine whether your workforce cooperates — or resists.
Leadership Agility — how present and proactive is your management?
Trust — do your workers believe what management tells them?
Collaborative IR — is there a platform to resolve issues without confrontation?
Workforce Empowerment — do workers have genuine say in decisions affecting them?
Practice Levers — what to do now for each driver
Industrial Harmony Index — your overall cooperation score
HEW Industrial Harmony Scorecard™ — IR Risk Drivers
◆ The HEW IR Transformation Model™
Industrial Harmony is the single IR lever that determines whether your business achieves its outcomes — or fights itself to reach them
Most IR frameworks focus on managing conflict. The HEW Model focuses on building the conditions where harmony is the natural state. Below are your scores on the four drivers of Industrial Harmony — each one directly determines whether your organisation can achieve its strategic business outcomes: Customer Centricity, Innovation, Digital Transformation, Profitability, Sustained Growth, and Resilience.
How present and proactive is your management on the floor?
38
Developing — Prioritise visibility
At this score, your managers show up when there's a crisis — not before one. The workforce has learned not to expect anything from leadership until something breaks. That is exactly when it is too late.
Practice Levers: Weekly floor walks — conversations, not inspections. No-surprise policy: workers hear decisions before the union does. Respond to every concern raised, visibly and quickly.
Trust
Do your workers believe what management tells them?
22
Critical — Immediate action
At this score, your workforce does not believe what management tells them. Every announcement is met with suspicion. Every initiative meets invisible resistance. You cannot lead people who don't trust you.
Practice Levers: Make a credible, time-bound wage commitment. Share decisions before implementing them. Acknowledge past commitments not kept — workers already know, and naming it begins repair.
Workforce Empowerment
Do workers have genuine say in decisions that affect their lives?
41
Developing — Build voice mechanisms
At this score, workers make decisions every day that affect your output — but have no say in decisions that affect their lives. That imbalance does not stay quiet. It becomes absenteeism, grievances, and go-slows.
Practice Levers: Fix one visible worker pain point without being asked. Equalise contract worker conditions on the most contested issue. Create a safety reporting channel workers trust.
Collaborative IR
Is there a structured platform to resolve issues without confrontation?
16
Critical — Most urgent driver
At this score, there is no structured platform for management and union to resolve anything together. Every problem escalates because there is no other channel. You are managing IR through crisis, not governance.
Practice Levers: Establish a Joint Consultative Committee — monthly, co-chaired, shared agenda. Share IR data openly with the union. Let them co-investigate one issue — it shifts the dynamic from adversarial to shared.
Industrial Harmony Index
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/ 100
Industrial Harmony is critically depleted at your organisation.
A Industrial Harmony Index of 29 means that the foundational conditions for workforce cooperation, change agility, and business performance are severely compromised. Organisations with a Industrial Harmony Index below 35 have a 3x higher incidence of work stoppages, 40% lower change implementation success rates, and significantly higher talent churn than those above 60. This is the number your Board and CEO need to own — not just the IR function.
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The Evidence
Data, benchmarks and financial cost that confirm the risk is real — not a projection.
IR Risk Indicators — predicted impact on business outcomes over 3 timelines
Industry Peer Benchmarking — where you stand vs sector average and best-in-class
Cost of IR Risk — line-by-line financial exposure from your current profile
6-Month IR Risk Trend — direction of travel based on your inputs
IR Risk Indicators — Predicted Impact on Business Outcomes
How to read these numbers: The percentages above are probability estimates — not scores, not percentiles. A 34% probability means that based on your current IR profile, there is roughly a 1-in-3 chance of a formal IR incident occurring within 30 days without intervention. These are modelled from your inputs, sector data and HEW case history. They are directional indicators, not statistical guarantees. They should be validated with your HEW consultant before being used in formal reporting.
Industry Peer Benchmarking — Where You Stand
How Does Your Industrial Harmony Compare to Peers?
Based on 200+ Indian Manufacturing organisations assessed on the HEW Model (2023–24 data)
How to read this section Percentile rank — e.g. "76th percentile" — tells you where you stand among peer organisations. It is not a score. Being at the 76th percentile for IR Risk means 76% of comparable organisations have lower IR risk than you. The higher the percentile, the more exposed you are. Scores — e.g. Leadership Agility: 25, Trust: 17 — are your actual HEW Model ratings out of 100. Think of them like exam marks. Sector Average is the typical score for your industry. Best-in-Class is what the top 25% of organisations achieve. The gap between your score and the sector average is what needs to close.
Industrial Harmony Percentile
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Higher = More at Risk
Overall Industrial Harmony Index
Industrial Harmony Driver Benchmarks
Cost of IR Risk — How We Arrive at These Numbers
Calculation Inputs — Your Organisation Data
Rs.100 Cr
Annual Turnover
Rs.3 Cr
Monthly Payroll
500–2,000
Workforce Size
24/100
Industrial Harmony Index
Total Cost of Industrial Harmony Deficit — 90-day exposure
This is not a crisis scenario. This is your current run-rate cost of operating with a Industrial Harmony Index of 29.
Rs.14.1 Cr
A HEW IR Transformation engagement typically costs a fraction of the exposure above. See Part 5 — Next Steps for details.
* All figures based on industry benchmarks from 200+ Indian manufacturing organisations, SHRM attrition cost research, and RBI wage data. Figures are estimates for strategic planning. Industrial Harmony Driver scores are proprietary to the HEW IR Transformation Model™.
Part 4 of 5
The Prescription
Exactly what HEW recommends — sequenced, specific and tied to your scores.
How to read this chart:
This chart tracks three IR risk signals over the past 6 months based on your inputs. ■ Operational Continuity Risk — probability of production disruption: work stoppage, go-slow or wildcat action. Driven by union posture, settlement age and grievance load. ■ Revenue & Profitability Risk — financial exposure from IR friction: OT premium, absenteeism cost, rework and management time lost to firefighting. ■ Strategic Execution Risk — how much IR friction is blocking strategy: digital transformation, productivity programmes, growth initiatives. Lower harmony = higher resistance to every initiative. ■ Talent & Leadership Risk — risk of workforce disengagement, management credibility collapse and loss of key people. Driven by trust deficit and voice mechanisms. All four rising together means the organisation cannot execute strategy, protect margins, or retain people simultaneously.
Do your workers believe what management tells them?
Workforce Empowerment
Do workers have genuine say in decisions that affect their lives?
Collaborative IR
Is there a structured platform to resolve issues without confrontation?
The four conditions that produce Industrial Harmony
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Tier 3 — Business Outcomes
• Customer Centricity• Innovation• Profitability• Digital Transformation• Sustained Growth• Resilience
What the Board and investors measure
How the three tiers link: IR practices (what IR managers do operationally) either build or erode the four Industrial Harmony Drivers. When all four drivers are strong, the organisation achieves Industrial Harmony — the single condition under which all six business outcomes become structurally accessible. When drivers are depleted, as in this assessment, the business faces increasing friction, resistance and cost on every strategic initiative it attempts to execute. The HEW model makes this linkage visible, measurable and actionable.
AI Analysis — Applied to your organisation
The following analysis applies the HEW model to the specific assessment data for this organisation
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HEW Transformation Prescription — 30 / 60 / 90 Day Action Plan
HEW Transformation Prescription — your organisation
Three-phase plan to move Industrial Harmony Index from 29 to 65+
Each action is mapped to the Industrial Harmony Driver it rebuilds and the Business Outcome it protects
Phase 1
Day 1–30
Signal — Build credibility fast
Phase 2
Day 31–60
Structure — Build the governance
Phase 3
Day 61–90
Sustain — Embed the transformation
90-Day Success Measures
65+
Industrial Harmony Index target
<48
IR Risk Score target
JCC live
Collaborative IR milestone
Structured
Q3 negotiation mode
Part 5 of 5
Next Steps
How HEW Management Consultants works with organisations at this stage of IR risk.
Senior Consultant Advisory — what a HEW engagement would address
How HEW Can Help — services matched to your risk profile
Rate This Assessment — help us improve
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From IR Risk to Industrial Harmony — The HEW Transformation Programme
This assessment identifies where your organisation stands. A structured consulting engagement transforms that picture — building the trust foundations that convert IR from a recurring cost into a strategic competitive advantage.
IR Diagnostic Deep-Dive (2-day on-site)
Trust Architecture™ Building Programme
Wage Negotiation Strategy & Preparation
Union Relationship Restructuring Programme
90-Day IR Transformation with Monthly Coaching
Re-assessment at 60 & 90 days — track your progress
How HEW Can Help
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Bangalore · India · hew-consultants.com
Your IR Sentinel AI assessment has identified a Industrial Harmony Index of 24/100 — placing your organisation in the critical zone. The services below represent HEW's structured response to exactly this profile: not generic consulting, but a sequenced intervention designed to move your Industrial Harmony Index to 65+ within 90 days and permanently shift your IR from a cost centre to a strategic asset.
IR Transformation
Industrial Harmony building, Trust architecture, JCC establishment, wage negotiation strategy & settlement facilitation. The HEW IR Transformation Programme is built on the model in this report.
Directly addresses your Industrial Harmony Index of 29
Strategic growth planning, operational excellence, governance design & system-driven scale — ensuring that the IR risk identified in this report does not cap your business growth ambitions.
Unlocks Sustained Growth & Digital Transformation outcomes
Culture Transformation
High-trust, high-performance culture design. Psychological safety programmes, near-miss culture, values-to-behaviour alignment & the cultural conditions that make Industrial Harmony sustainable.
Sustains Trust (22) beyond the 90-day programme
Strategic Advisory
Board-level IR advisory, management mandate development for wage negotiations, IR risk governance & strategic workforce planning — translating Industrial Harmony Index scores into Board agenda items.
Frames IR as a Board-level business performance issue
Scaling & Professionalisation
IR systems, grievance architecture, JCC governance, compliance frameworks & professionalisation of IR function — building the institutional capacity that prevents this profile from recurring.
Builds Collaborative IR (16) as a permanent capability
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