Kudosinsinöörin
Kudosinsinöörin is a term used in Finnish-language discussions of organizational design and speculative technology to describe an engineer whose primary remit is to design, implement, and assess systems that generate, channel, and measure social recognition or kudos within teams, products, or online communities. The word combines kudos, borrowed from English to denote praise or acclaim, with insinööri, the Finnish word for engineer.
The kudosinsinööri's responsibilities include creating recognition architectures—digital platforms, workflows, and governance practices—that encourage constructive praise while
Techniques employed include human-centered design, feedback-loop engineering, and gamification, applied with opt-in consent and transparent rules
Critics argue that kudos infrastructures can incentivize performative behavior or undermine intrinsic motivation if not carefully
See also: gamification, organizational psychology, feedback loops.