Transforming HR in the digital era: Workforce analytics can move people specialists to the center of decision-making
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 11 May 2015
Abstract
Purpose
Shows how workforce analytics can help human resource (HR) management specialists to be more effective in the digital era.
Design/methodology/approach
Draws on the author’s experience, plus a review of the literature.
Findings
Reveals how analytics have transformed ways of managing a diversified workforce and helped to put HR at the center of organizational decision-making.
Practical implications
Claims that the predictive power of analytics can help to make HR more effective.
Social implications
Highlights how analytics can help to fit the right people to the right jobs, ensure they receive the right training and the right pay and stay loyal to the organization.
Originality/value
Reveals that the power of analytics can be used to make virtually all HR functions more effective.
Keywords
Citation
LAL, P. (2015), "Transforming HR in the digital era: Workforce analytics can move people specialists to the center of decision-making", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-03-2015-0051
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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