HR Analytics

The What, Why and How

This book is intended to educate those that are not familiar with HR Analytics and who do not have a numbers background. The key to success in people analytics is to focus on and prioritize business questions of value to your company or organization. This book will provide very practical advice for those entering the field of HR and People Analytics. Specifically, it will show the reader how to approach an analysis project, show how to properly select metrics, discuss how to design dashboards with your customer and business problem in mind, provide more than thirteen people analytics examples to get you started (without needing sophisticated math), introduce the concept of a linkage map to connect business measurements, provide advice on whether to build HR analytics capabilities in-house, give examples of analytical and visualization tools, warn you of challenges to consider when implementing HR analytics and, with many companies failing in HR Analytics, provide reasons why analytics initiatives fail to show value.