Learn how to identify and align metrics to support your organization’s goals and provide decision-makers with greater insight into workforce-related metrics and measurement. This course offers a unique opportunity to get a solid understanding of HR metrics and apply them in business environment. You will learn which metrics are relevant for your strategic business goal and how you should implement them. Due to the applicability of the course, you will be able to immediately apply your new skills and insights to your organization.
Metrics in HR departments are extremely important and provide a basis for analysis. They should not be used separate of analysis. Combining metrics with appropriate analytical tools you can turn them into analytics and information into insight. It is the insight that produces value, not the metric itself. Primary purpose of analytics is to support and improve decision making so there is a need to choose and report metric that lead to action. Typically today HR departments overproduce data and information yet provide little to no insight that achieves this primary purpose.
Many metrics are useful to those responsible to manage an HR process because they provide insights into process improvement opportunities. But these metrics may not be useful or important to line management. Identifiaction of appropriate audience for each metric becomes a challenge and therefore an important component of HR process. Identifying the handful of analytics that connect Human Capital management to organization strategy and key goals and objectives is the most important step you can take in making metrics meaningful to your organization.