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Human Capital Analytics How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset

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ISBN-10: 1118466764

ISBN-13: 9781118466766

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, Jac Fitz-enz

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Description:

This book will provide 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. SAS software will be included in the discussion of tools needed to do the work, particularly focusing on multivariate analysis.
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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction Realizing the Dream: From Nuisance to Necessity
Human Capital Analytics
Human Capital Analytics Continuum
Summary
Notes
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
The Measurement Plan
Defining the intervention(s)
Measurement Map
Hypotheses or Business Questions
Defining the Metrics
Demographics
Data Sources and Requirements
Summary
Note
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
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
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
Beyond ROI to Optimization
Optimization
Summary
Notes
Share the Story
Presenting the Financials
Telling the Story and Adding Up the Numbers
Preparing for the Meetings
Summary
Notes
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
Final Thoughts
Notes
Different Levels to Describe Measurement
Getting Your Feet Wet in Data: Preparing and Cleaning the Data Set
Details of Basic Descriptive Statistics
Regression Modeling
Generating Soft Data from Employees
Glossary
About the Authors
Index