Human capital analytics : how to harness the potential of your organization's greatest asset / Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, Jac Fitz-enz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pease, Gene, 1950-

Contributor:

Byerly, Boyce, 1962-

Fitz-enz, Jac.

Series:

Wiley and SAS business series.

Wiley & SAS business series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human capital.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An insightful look at the implementation of advanced analytics on human capital Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining and business analytics techniques to human resources data. Human Capital Analytics provides an in-depth look at the science of human capital analytics, giving practical examples from case studies of companies applying analytics to their people decisions and providing a framework for using predictive analytics to optimize human capital investments. Written by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly,

Contents:

""Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Realizing the Dream: From Nuisance to Necessity""; ""Starting from the Back Row""; ""The Value Dream""; ""Barriers in the Human Resource Area""; ""Organizations are all about People, Not Things""; ""Managing Risk""; ""Historic Fundamentals""; ""Intangibles""; ""Predictability""; ""Need for Definition""; ""Breakthrough""; ""Practicality""; ""Analytics Model Foundation""; ""Awakening""; ""Notes""

""Chapter 1: Human Capital Analytics""""Human Capital Analytics Continuum""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2: Alignment""; ""The Stakeholder Workshop: Creating the Right Climate for Alignment""; ""Aligning Stakeholders""; ""Who Are Your Stakeholders?""; ""What Should You Accomplish in a Stakeholder Meeting?""; ""Deciding What to Measure with Your Stakeholders""; ""Leading Indicators""; ""Business Impact""; ""Assigning Financial Values to ""Intangibles""""; ""Defining Your Participants""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3: The Measurement Plan""; ""Defining the Intervention(s)""

""Measurement Map""""Hypotheses or Business Questions""; ""Defining the Metrics""; ""Demographics""; ""Data Sources and Requirements""; ""Summary""; ""Note""; ""Chapter 4: It's All about the Data""; ""Types of Data""; ""Tying Your Data Sets Together""; ""Difficulties in Obtaining Data""; ""Ethics of Measurement and Evaluation""; ""Telling the Truth""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 5: What Dashboards Are Telling You: Descriptive Statistics and Correlations""; ""Descriptive Statistics""; ""Going Graphic with the Data""; ""Data over Time""; ""Descriptive Statistics on Steroids""

""Correlation Does Not Imply Causation""""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 6: Causation: What Really Drives Performance""; ""Can You Create Separate Test and Control Groups?""; ""Are There Observable Differences?""; ""Did You Consider Prior Performance?""; ""Did You Consider Time-Related Changes?""; ""Did You Look at the Descriptive Statistics?""; ""Have You Considered the Relationship between the Metrics?""; ""A Gentle Introduction to Statistics""; ""Basic Ideas behind Regression""; ""Model Fit and Statistical Significance""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 7: Beyond ROI to Optimization""

""Optimization""""Segmentation""; ""Mixture""; ""Saturation""; ""Metric Interaction""; ""Time Line""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 8: Share the Story""; ""Presenting the Financials""; ""Telling the Story and Adding Up the Numbers""; ""Preparing for the Meetings""; ""Summary""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 9: Conclusion""; ""Human Capital Analytics""; ""Alignment""; ""The Measurement Plan""; ""It's All about the Data""; ""What Dashboards Are Telling You: Descriptive Statistics and Correlations""; ""Causation: What Really Drives Performance""; ""Beyond ROI to Optimization""; ""The Ultimate Goal""

""What Others Think about the Future of Analytics""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119205050

1119205050

9781283665087

1283665085

9781118506974

1118506979

OCLC:

817829536