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Informationen zum Autor Mike West was a founding member of the first people analytics teams at Merck, PetSmart, Google, and Children's Health Dallas before starting his own firm, PeopleAnalyst, LLC. He has helped companies large and small design people analytics applications and start their own people analytics teams. Mike brings a unique perspective about how to use data to create winning companies and great places to work. Klappentext Maximize performance with better dataDeveloping a successful workforce requires more than a gut check. Data can help guide your decisions on everything from where to seat a team to optimizing production processes to engaging with your employees in ways that ring true to them.People analytics is the study of your number one business asset--your people--and this book shows you how to collect data, analyze that data, and then apply your findings to create a happier and more engaged workforce.* Start a people analytics project* Work with qualitative data* Collect data via communications* Find the right tools and approach for analyzing dataIf your organization is ready to better understand why high performers leave, why one department has more personnel issues than another, and why employees violate, People Analytics For Dummies makes it easier. Zusammenfassung Maximize performance with better dataDeveloping a successful workforce requires more than a gut check. Data can help guide your decisions on everything from where to seat a team to optimizing production processes to engaging with your employees in ways that ring true to them.People analytics is the study of your number one business asset--your people--and this book shows you how to collect data! analyze that data! and then apply your findings to create a happier and more engaged workforce.* Start a people analytics project* Work with qualitative data* Collect data via communications* Find the right tools and approach for analyzing dataIf your organization is ready to better understand why high performers leave! why one department has more personnel issues than another! and why employees violate! People Analytics For Dummies makes it easier. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 How This Book is Organized 3 Part 1: Getting Started with People Analytics 3 Part 2: Elevating Your Perspective 4 Part 3: Quantifying the Employee Journey 4 Part 4: Improving Your Game Plan with Science and Statistics 5 Part 5: The Part of Tens 5 Beyond the Book 5 Where to Go from Here 7 Part 1: Getting Started With People Analytics 9 Chapter 1: Introducing People Analytics 11 Defining People Analytics 12 Solving business problems by asking questions 14 Using people data in business analysis 19 Applying statistics to people management 20 Combining people strategy, science, statistics, and systems 21 Blazing a New Trail for Executive Influence and Business Impact 22 Moving from old HR to new HR 22 Using data for continuous improvement 24 Accounting for people in business results 24 Competing in the New Management Frontier 25 Chapter 2: Making the Business Case for People Analytics 27 Getting Executives to Buy into People Analytics 29 Getting started with the ABCs 29 Creating clarity is essential 30 Business case dreams are made of problems, needs, goals 30 Tailoring to the decision maker 31 Peeling the onion 32 Identifying people problems 34 Taking feelings seriously 35 Saving time and money 36 Leading the field (analytically) 37 People Analytics as a Decision Support Tool 38 Formalizing the Business Case 40 Presenting t...
