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9 Tips for Using HR Metrics Strategically

9 Tips for Using HR Metrics Strategically

September 21, 2017

Via: SHRM

The story of why a company is performing as it is isn’t going to come from HR data. Period. Full stop.”

That’s an odd statement from someone who makes his living studying the impact of HR and human capital metrics, among other things. But data science can be a strange business—and Alec Levenson, senior research scientist at the University of Southern California’s Center for Effective Organizations, says one of the most important things HR professionals should understand about HR data is its limitations.

While scores of articles have been written about the potential for people analytics to transform human resources from an operational function into a strategic resource, so far HR’s fundamental hurdle has been its inability to quantify its ultimate impact.

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