Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Human Capital Analytics

Human Capital Analytics Continuum

Summary

Notes

Chapter 2: Alignment

The Stakeholder Workshop: Creating the Right Climate for Alignment

Aligning Stakeholders

Who are Your Stakeholders?

What Should You Accomplish in a Stakeholder Meeting?

Deciding What to Measure with Your Stakeholders

Leading Indicators

Business Impact

Assigning Financial Values to “Intangibles”

Defining Your Participants

Summary

Notes

Chapter 3: The Measurement Plan

Defining the Intervention(s)

Measurement Map

Hypotheses or Business Questions

Defining the Metrics

Demographics

Data Sources and Requirements

Summary

Note

Chapter 4: It’s All about the Data

Types of Data

Tying Your Data Sets Together

Difficulties in Obtaining Data

Ethics of Measurement and Evaluation

Telling the Truth

Summary

Notes

Chapter 5: What Dashboards are Telling You: Descriptive Statistics and Correlations

Descriptive Statistics

Going Graphic with the Data

Data over Time

Descriptive Statistics on Steroids

Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

Summary

Notes

Chapter 6: Causation: What Really Drives Performance

Can You Create Separate Test and Control Groups?

Are There Observable Differences?

Did You Consider Prior Performance?

Did You Consider Time-Related Changes?

Did You Look at the Descriptive Statistics?

Have You Considered the Relationship between the Metrics?

A Gentle Introduction to Statistics

Basic Ideas behind Regression

Model Fit and Statistical Significance ...

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