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People Analytics For Dummies
Maximize performance with better data
Developing 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 data If 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.
Developing 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 data If 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.
443 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2019
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About the author
Mike West
1 bookMike 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.
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June 26, 2021
I came to this book expecting a beginner friendly introduction to a topic that was of personal interest, hoping to find HR concepts explained and mixed in with the analytics part of it.
My expectations were not let down. The book has a very simple and objective of way of explaining concepts, making sure every single concept is made clear beyond any doubts. I really liked the way the narrative tackles not just the "analysis" part of People Analytics, but actually prefaces you with how the author sees it should work and some variations that might happen in the corporate world (like having a centralized center of People Analytics rather than a dispersed one in your company, for example). So when you actually get to the analysis bulk of the thing, you already have an all-around brief idea of how perhaps you'd be working (like collecting the data and setting up other things necessary for it).
As negative points, perhaps if you're a more well-versed person on the subject, some topics might be too superficial or even simple, specially regarding statistics -- but again, I feel it is a introductory book and should be read with that expectations in mind. Also, it is a down-to-earth book, in that it teaches you things you'd actually be applying in the real world, so there's no dwindling around with abstract statistics a more hardcore person with be on the lookout for.
During the whole read I found many tips that correlate to my working situation right now, and that I have to say, adds up really nicely to your empathy towards the book, bringing to it a brilliant view towards the real world people analytics.
I would totally recommend it to people looking to understand more of the world of People Analytics.
My expectations were not let down. The book has a very simple and objective of way of explaining concepts, making sure every single concept is made clear beyond any doubts. I really liked the way the narrative tackles not just the "analysis" part of People Analytics, but actually prefaces you with how the author sees it should work and some variations that might happen in the corporate world (like having a centralized center of People Analytics rather than a dispersed one in your company, for example). So when you actually get to the analysis bulk of the thing, you already have an all-around brief idea of how perhaps you'd be working (like collecting the data and setting up other things necessary for it).
As negative points, perhaps if you're a more well-versed person on the subject, some topics might be too superficial or even simple, specially regarding statistics -- but again, I feel it is a introductory book and should be read with that expectations in mind. Also, it is a down-to-earth book, in that it teaches you things you'd actually be applying in the real world, so there's no dwindling around with abstract statistics a more hardcore person with be on the lookout for.
During the whole read I found many tips that correlate to my working situation right now, and that I have to say, adds up really nicely to your empathy towards the book, bringing to it a brilliant view towards the real world people analytics.
I would totally recommend it to people looking to understand more of the world of People Analytics.
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