7 things we’ve learnt from our analytics and data month
Our data, analytics and automation hub includes over 20 articles from experts, researchers and commentators on how HR can better use people data to achieve results. We’ve rounded up seven key learnings from the hub but we urge you to read the full articles to deepen your understanding of this crucial area. 1. “When you automate […]
Investing in people: what comes first – the chicken or the egg?
If leaders truly believe that people, and more precisely their knowledge and skills, are the most important asset available to our organisations, we need to develop a clear way to articulate the value of those knowledge and skills to help investors, owner-managers and regulators understand critical people concepts in our organisations. However, this is often […]
Taking action on diversity: the role of data
The evidence for the importance of diversity in the workforce is abundant and often cited – and yet progress towards more inclusive and diverse workplaces remains stubbornly slow. All too often, gender, ethnicity and sexuality continue to count against opportunity for individuals who do not fit the middle aged, white, heterosexual male archetype. We also […]
Brexit and business planning: do you know who your workers are?
As the impact of Brexit and the recent UK general election slowly become clear, now is the perfect time for organisations to take stock of their strategies and business models, and embrace people data to its full potential. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has highlighted just how few organisations consider the long-term […]
Putting people first creates better businesses, but this requires investing in measuring human capital
The argument for the importance of people to organisations has, for far too many years, been framed in the terms of the workforce being an asset that is owned by and available to the business. The tired adage of people being an organisation’s “most important asset” has, in many ways, lost the shine that it […]
The need for people – vs just business – analytics
Jon Ingham is Executive Consultant, Strategic Dynamics, and author, The Social Organization. There has been some useful development in HR’s use of analytics over the last few years. One of the positive aspects of this has been the increased use of the term workforce analytics, rather than ‘HR analytics’, to signal that we are interested in […]
Workplace engagement and performance – how do you unpack its mysteries?
This article was co-authored by Martin Reddington and Elmira Bakhshalian, Founder and Research and Development Manager respectively at Martin Reddington Associates. There is a burgeoning interest in the measurement of workforce engagement and performance – both from academic and practitioner perspectives. The old ways of doing an engagement survey every year or two to extract data to produce […]
HR analytics: what does the landscape look like?
Analytics is the business function that has developed to extract meaning and value from the large and growing amounts of data that are routinely generated and stored by the IT infrastructure that organisations use in their day to day operations. There is a widespread consensus that the HR function has made less progress in using […]
Is HR really ready for automation?
The HR tech marketing is increasingly shifting its focus from talk of big data and cloud-based solutions to bolder claims of automation of tasks and roles, primarily through the use of machine learning/AI. HR has a responsibility to understand the changing landscape of work and how it will impact organisations, but it also needs to […]
What are the opportunities for automation in HR?
Anyone remember printing CVs and putting them into a dusty manila file for interview? Nowadays people apply for jobs on their smartphones whilst getting the bus to work. This automation journey in HR has varied between organisations as we moved to the cloud and adopted mobile services. Key HR activities, such as hiring, on-boarding and […]
“When you automate a process, don’t lose the process’s purpose and essence,” says Metro Bank’s Chief People Officer
Danielle Harmer is Chief People Officer at Metro Bank. When Metro Bank launched in 2010, it was the first high street bank in 100 years. They were voted Moneywise’s Most Trusted Financial Provider for the second consecutive year and, by 2020, aim to have 110 stores across the UK. Danielle has worked in retail banking […]
Data mastery: a key global mobility challenge
This article has been written on behalf of the RES Forum by Professor Michael Dickmann, Professor of International Human Resource Management at Cranfield University School of Management and Vicki Marsh, Head of UK Operations at Equus Software. How companies are exploiting – or not – the benefits from the identification and visualisation of global mobility […]
Don’t get overwhelmed into inaction – analytics success can come to every company
In a recent Deloitte survey on HR Analytics, a shockingly realistic number was presented. The results showed that 8% of respondents report that they have usable data at their disposal. It’s a shocking statistic given that other surveys claim that anywhere from 75-86% of executives think HR Analytics is an important topic. Together, these results […]
What there is to fear with HR Data Analytics
Making the case for HR data analytics needs to go beyond just providing insight into the key business challenges an organisation has. The case needs to also help people navigate the change that the insights could lead to as well as manage one of the strongest emotions we all experience: fear. Fear: analysing a trait […]
HR data and GDPR: what you need to know about consent (and why not to rely on it)
The upcoming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) has significant implications for HR and has, understandably, grabbed the headlines recently. Predictions of hefty fines for employers abound. These are often attributed to the higher standard of consent for processing personal data that the legislation requires. It is true that with the new legislation, which comes into […]
“Eliminating the part of the labor force that will do dull, dirty, and dangerous work will not create sustainable jobs for others.”
Katherine Jones is Partner and Director of Talent Research at Mercer. She was previously VP, Human Capital Management Technology Research at Bersin by Deloitte. Katherine will be speaking at HR Tech World in London on March 21st and 22nd this year. Get your tickets here! Jamie Lawrence, Editor, HRZone: It feels like diversity and inclusion are […]
HR analytics – the most important thing? Get started
Organisations that build their HR analytics strategy well start with two questions: what are our business objectives and how can we use analytics to optimise the effect of our people practices on attaining these objectives? A new study shows that most organisations don’t focus enough on HR analytics to make it successful, with over two […]
Six things you should be doing with your workforce data
In the first article in this series, we looked at whether HRDs were effectively ‘flying blind’ – not using the instrumentation that HR analytics provides to effectively tell them where they are going (or at least plot a credible course for their organisation). HR has huge amounts of people data at its fingertips, yet many organisations have […]
Gamification isn’t dead, it’s just one piece of the employee engagement puzzle
As recently as last year it was widely and optimistically accepted that applying game mechanics to corporate tasks, like rewarding points, levels or badges to completing a timecard or participating in a giving campaign would have a significant increase in employee engagement. Studies from industry research experts such as the Aberdeen Group, found in a […]
A strategy for becoming the most important function in your company
Improving HR's business impact must be a priority for future-thinking, strategic HR professionals. This article looks at one key aspect of impact: the importance of having a data-driven model. If you'd like to delve deeper into this topic and understand at a broader level how to improve HR's business impact, download our whitepaper – Make HR […]
