HR Analytics: A huge gap between perceived importance and readiness!
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from 11.070 respondents* say: "People Data is important or very important"
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from 11.070 respondents* say: "our organization is ready or very ready for HR analytics"
What are the challenges in HR and Business which result in this gap?
Set expectations and address fears about People Analytics
Thereare two quotes from the book “Work Rules”, by Laszlo Bock (former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google), which I think put the interaction of intuition, biases, and data-driven decision in HR perfectly in perspective:
I don’t think you’ll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?
One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior
Use protypes to move from abstract discussions to applied HR work
- If you start a major HR analytics project you need funding and time. Often organization spend an enourmous amount of time on setting up the project, collecting the data, discussing technology, scouting for vendors or big consultancies
- The typical results is, everybody in HR and business is hyped or concerned (depends who you ask) in the beginning. As nothing really happens for a long time, disappointment or “I told you so” is setting in, and your HR Analytic project might die before it really starts.
- Instead, we are advocates of rapid prototyping and iterative learning (And yes I am biased as I have an ecommerce background). The great news is that via open source technology and programming languages such as R and Python, paired with a large global HR Analytics community, you can to get off the ground extremely quickly.
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Interesting. Intense. Complex. In consequence a challenge for HR folks to make sense out of all this. This would be my summary from Zukunft Personal 2019. Let me try to help out by focusing on which questions mattered to me and which might also be important for you.