People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent - Hardcover

Isson, Jean Paul; Harriott, Jesse S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119050782 ISBN 13: 9781119050780

Publisher: Wiley, 2016

Synopsis

Apply predictive analytics throughout all stages of workforce management

People Analytics in the Era of Big Data provides a blueprint for leveraging your talent pool through the use of data analytics. Written by the Global Vice President of Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics at Monster Worldwide, this book is packed full of actionable insights to help you source, recruit, acquire, engage, retain, promote, and manage the exceptional talent your organization needs. With a unique approach that applies analytics to every stage of the hiring process and the entire workforce planning and management cycle, this informative guide provides the key perspective that brings analytics into HR in a truly useful way.

You're already inundated with disparate employee data, so why not mine that data for insights that add value to your organization and strengthen your workforce? This book presents a practical framework for real-world talent analytics, backed by groundbreaking examples of workforce analytics in action across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

• Leverage predictive analytics throughout the hiring process
• Utilize analytics techniques for more effective workforce management
• Learn how people analytics benefits organizations of all sizes in various industries
• Integrate analytics into HR practices seamlessly and thoroughly

Corporate executives need fact-based insights into what will happen with their talent. Who should you hire? Who should you promote? Who are the top or bottom performers, and why? Who is at risk to quit, and why? Analytics can provide these answers, and give you insights based on quantifiable data instead of gut feeling and subjective assessment. People Analytics in the Era of Big Data is the essential guide to optimizing your workforce with the tools already at your disposal.

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From the Back Cover:

PRAISE FOR PEOPLE ANALYTICS IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA

"The world of work has changed with the emergence of Big Data and social media networking. This book is the ultimate guide every leader needs to win the war for talent by leveraging predictive analytics. A must read for everyone."

―TIM YATES, CEO, Monster Worldwide Inc.

"The war for talent is facing every company head-on, and analytics are a key part of winning that war. People Analytics in the Era of Big Data gives business leaders the key concepts they need to drive human capital ROI."

―HARPREET GREWAL, EVP and General Manager, Constant Contact

"Leaders who make hiring decisions without understanding the factors that truly drive performance in their organization are essentially 'winging it.' Leaders who understand the people analytics are going to radically outperform their peers. Isson and Harriott are the experts in this field that will no doubt become the critical leadership skill of the next decade."

―ART PAPAS, CEO, Bullhorn

"Many workforce practitioners feel pressure to use Big Data and predictive analytics to solve costly workforce challenges. This book provides these folks with an excellent reference guide for a successful People Analytics journey. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more, or feeling excluded from today's workforce analytics conversation."

―GRETA ROBERTS, CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp.

"Getting the right people in an organization is the key to long-term success and analytics must play a prominent role. People Analytics in the Era of Big Data is a key read for the leader that wants to apply cutting-edge analytics to getting the most out of their talent management strategies."

―STEVE PEMBERTON, Chief Diversity Officer, Walgreens

"The time is now to manage human resources as a data-driven process. Leading organizations have made the move to apply predictive analytics not only outwardly across customers, but also inwardly across employees. Isson and Harriott's groundbreaking book sets forth the undeniable business case that compels your organization to deploy workforce analytics and guides you in how to best leverage it to more effectively manage the entire employee life cycle."

―ERIC SIEGEL, PhD, founder, Predictive Analytics World, and author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

"Leveraging analytics is a must for today's human capital executive. People Analytics in the Era of Big Data provides a compelling framework to drive ROI across all stages of the talent management life cycle."

―BRYAN BURDICK, Global Head of B2B, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

From the Inside Flap:

Today, human capital operates in a globally connected arena where the talent marketplace, propelled by the internet, social media, big data, skills shortage, and workforce imbalance, is more and more competitive.The majority of talent managers are inundated with data from disconnected tools and systems. While some are struggling to move beyond basic employee performance reporting, others do not even know from where to start their people analytics journey.

People Analytics in the Era of Big Data provides a blueprint for using data analytics to plan and maximize your talent pool. Written for non-technical professionals and leaders, this practical guide features a proven framework and actionable steps to source, recruit, acquire, engage, retain, promote, and manage the top talent for your business. Contributions from professionals leading the way in human capital development in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia share the solutions that produce profitable results at their organizations. This book provides actionable guidance on how to inject predictive analytics into every stage of the talent life cycle to drive optimal business performance, including how to:

• Build a scalable strategic workforce planning analytics function
• Optimize talent sourcing in the era of the Internet, cloud, Big Data, and social media
• Harness Big Data intelligence to acquire the right candidate
• Leverage predictive models to retain your top performers at risk of leaving
• Build employee lifetime value and cost modeling for better performance management and recognition
• Anticipate successful performers as well as underperformers to ensure an optimal workforce
• Learn to quantify an investment in your employees' well-being and health that impacts productivity and performance
• Understand how Big Data applies to talent management and staffing
• Migrate from business analytics to People Analytics to create a competitive edge for your organization

Why People Analytics Now?

In this Big Data era, the next generation of managers will need to integrate a combination of art (the traditional human intuition experience) and science (Big Data analytics intelligence) in order to be successful. This will require support from senior leadership eager to compete by injecting analytics in the management cycle of their most valuable asset: their workforce.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1119050782
• ISBN 13: 9781119050780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416