HR Analytics Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Self-Learning Management Series)

Product Description
Highlights of the book:
Functions as a supplement to a textbook for undergraduates studying Human Resources Management
Blends theory with practical guidance, making it easy to begin implementing analytics best practices
Comes with helpful video tutorials for using Excel to manipulate quantitative data
Have you ever wondered if there is a science behind the people decisions made by businesses? If you have ever been curious about this, then
HR Analytics Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is the resource guide you need!
Read this book if you want to be able to:
Define what HR Analytics can do for an organization
Determine the best HR analytics role for you
Assess the readiness of your organization for undergoing a study using HR analytics
Apply HR Analytics in various HR disciplines
Use Excel to efficiently manage data for your HR analytics
Tell your organization’s story - whether you are a seasoned professional or a newcomer
Part overview of the field, part handbook, HR Analytics Essentials walks readers through the many benefits of using analytics to make better people decisions. HR Analytics requires more than just strong gut instincts and a talent for talking with people; it requires a good understanding of your organization’s human capital. As this guide will show, HR Analytics is both an art and a science that can help your organization make informed decisions that benefit all stakeholders. With case studies and online tutorials, including a step-by-step guide for using Excel to efficiently work with your data, HR Analytics Essentials is the perfect handbook you need.
About the Series
The Self-Learning Management Series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations across any and every industry.
Review
Michael J. Walsh’s book does much more than just study the qualitative themes of storytelling. HR Analytics actually combines qualitative and quantitative storytelling practices, and applies the nexus to recruiting, staffing, training, and communicating. HR Analytics relates to my field of storytelling by skillfully pulling together both the qualitative and the quantitative patterns, then composing an integrative, succinct story the organization is ready to embrace. A crucial step is determining how best to display the story with qualitative data and if needed, a statistical analysis of demographics. So, what is the benefit of combining hard core analytics with good storytelling practices? First, HR Analytics combines ways to tell the story, to manage expectations, track the process, and enact possibilities for improveent. Second, it combines organizational network diagnosis of how people are communicating with one another with ways by creating a process of recommendations for change management that improves long term organizational readiness. Finally, once people understand the basic analytic techniques, telling a story to different demographic audiences can bring the right candidates that fit what the organization is all about.
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David M. Boje, Aalborg University, Denmark
Every function of an organization can benefit from analytics. Dr. Michael Walsh has and his book 'HR Analytics Essentials' provides a helpful framework for establishing and using analytics to support the Human Resources function and key decision-making. This book is a good tool for individuals in the field of H.R. and managers.
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Leslie Yerkes President Catalyst Consulting Group, Inc.
This book explains the scientific method of inquiry as it is applied to HR functions in a clear and understandable manner. The book has easily viewed charts, graphs, case studies, discussions questions, and quizzes to help the reader. The use of statistics to operationalize data is easy to comprehend. The book covers the essential areas of the HR fu