HR Analytics: An Overview - Analytics in HR

HR Analytics is a topic that’s rising in popularity among HR professionals. Analytics in HR aims to be the leading platform about this subject. Below you can find all the articles we ever published. Our articles are written by a set of dedicated writers with experience in applying analytics within companies. Check the different kinds kinds of articles below:

Explainers:
Our basic explainers explain what HR analytics is all about, like what is HR analytics? and an extensive article on what predictive analytics are and how they can be applied in HR. This article includes 7 case studies and a tutorial!
Business cases:
We also write about business cases. These articles show the relevance and added value of analytics, like our business case on employee turnover and absenteeism.
Case studies:
Besides business cases, we publish case studies like how hr analytics reduced workplace accidents and how it increased sales performance by utilizing smart psychometric tests. Lastly, we also write practical tutorials, like how to analyze employee churn by using R. Other practical articles are about HR metrics (part 1 and part 2).
Learnings from projects:
Lastly we love to share our learnings with you. An interesting read is our article on 5 Reasons Why HR Analytics Projects Fail. The article will help you prevent the most common traps in analytics projects.

We also compile a list of the top HR analytics articles written every month. You can see these posts here:

You can find a full list of our HR analytics articles below. Enjoy!

What is the role of the HR Analyst?

The HR analyst plays a crucial role in collecting, structuring, analyzing, and reporting on HR processes and data. In this article, we will discuss the key competencies for an HR analyst, how to become one, career paths, and salary levels. Topics in this article 1)...

5 Essential Workforce Planning Tools for any HR professional

Workforce planning tools are an essential part of the HR professional’s toolkit. In this article we’ll go over 5 strategic workforce planning tools, explain their use and give examples and excel templates on how to use them. What are workforce planning tools? Workforce planning tools...

10 Trends in Workforce Analytics

Workforce analytics is developing and maturing. These are the 10 major trends for the near future. 1. From one time to real-time Many workforce analytics efforts start as a consultancy project. A question is formulated (“How do our employees experience their journey?”), many people are...

Top 5 Trending HR analytics Articles of April 2018

Welcome to this April edition of our ‘Most Trending Articles’ of 2018! People analytics is emerging and becoming mainstream. The top articles of April features a new book on people data and analytics, a podcast, and a few in-depth articles on the role of value...

The HR Value Chain: An Essential tool for Adding Value to HR

The question “What value does HR add to an organization?” has always been difficult to answer. In this article, I will discuss the HR value chain. Not only helps this tool to show the added value of HR, it also constitutes an excellent framework for...

Why the GDPR Requires you to take Action for your Employees and your Business

GDPR. The four-letter initialism that’s looming over every business scrambling to ensure compliance come the deadline. GDPR will affect companies across the globe who hold, or will hold, any data on EU and UK persons. Knowledge of GDPR, therefore, is vital for an effective global...

Job Satisfaction in Engagement Surveys – Have we been measuring it wrong?

“How satisfied are you with your job?” We have all come across this, or a slightly different version of this question about how satisfied we are with our job. In People Analytics, job satisfaction is among the most important constructs. Employee surveys often use this...

How Personality Tests Can Help Build Productive Teams

Most large organization use personality testing in one form or another. This can be to select the best candidates or to help in improving performance of individuals and teams. Examples include the Myers-Briggs personality inventory and the Five Factor Model. How useful are these assessments...

4 Foundations of Data-Driven HR

Each year, we survey hundreds of HR and business professionals and publish an HR Trends Report. In the survey, we ask questions about the state of metrics and analytics within HR departments. As a professional that focuses on this area, it is disappointing to see...

Top 5 Trending HR analytics Articles of March 2018

Welcome to this Easter edition of our ‘Most Trending Articles’ of 2018! Here at Analytics in HR, we hope that you’re all out celebrating Easter with your family and friends. With these extra days off, now’s a good chance to catch up on your monthly...

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