Applying Advanced Analytics to HR Management Decisions: Methods for Selection, Developing Incentives, and Improving Collaboration (FT Press Analytics)
Using advanced analytics and Big Data, you can build an organization that’s more collaborative, inclusive, merit-based, andsuccessful. In this book, pioneering HR technology expert James Sesil shows how to use advanced analytics to optimize HR decision-making: workforce/succession planning, talent acquisition, career development, performance management, strategy alignment, and more. Writing from the HR leader’s perspective, Sesil distills important new research on decision-making, helping you leverage key advances in behavioral economics, psychology, and machine learning. You’ll learn how to make better human capital management decisions by combining advanced analytics, expert knowledge, and your best intuition. Sesil covers core concepts, data sources, advanced tools, predictive modeling techniques, and much more. You’ll learn how to integrate and leverage information you may already possess and build a “data-driven” culture that brings new clarity to all your HR decisions. Beyond suboptimal and irrational HR decision-makingLessons from Kahneman and beyond: eliminating bias without abandoning intuitionLeveraging the latest insights into employee collaboration and motivationUsing advanced analytics to promote cooperation and performanceFinding and maximizing important new sources of valueGetting the right mix of human capital, management practices, policies, and technologySystematically improving your hiring and incentive decisionsMaking better hiring predictions and leveraging shared rewards more successfully  The complete guide to improving HR decision-making through analytics Leverage advanced analytics and Big Data to build more equitable, collaborative, and successful organizationsImprove selection, performance, collaboration, resource planning, and moreDevelop an analytical culture that consistently relies on facts and realityBy James Sesil, the first expert to apply new research findings in Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Advanced Analytics to HR decision makingOrganizational success requires the best possible human capital decisions. Analytics can help you systematically optimize those decisions. Too many HR organizations settle for simple descriptive statistics and correlations, when theycouldbe using analytics to drive value in virtually every HR function. Now, James C. Sesil offers a complete analytical blueprint for improving your most pivotal choices: how to hire, reward, motivate, promote collaboration, uncover value, and improve performance. Step by step, you’ll learn how to apply well-proven analytic techniques to infuse strategic HR decision-making with unprecedented levels of objectivity and insight. This isn’t about abandoning your hard-won human expertise and intuition. It’s about complementing and strengthening them… to build organizations that are fairer, more merit-driven, and more effective.