In Dutch only: Voor Privacyweb schreef ik onlangs over people analytics en het mogelijk resulterende nudgen van medewerkers: kleine aanpassingen of duwtjes die mensen in de goede richting zouden moeten sturen. Medewerkers verleiden tot goed gedrag, als het ware. Maar wie bepaalt dan wat goed is, en wanneer zouden werkgevers wel of niet mogen of…
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Books for the modern, data-driven HR professional (incl. People Analytics)
With great pleasure I’ve studied and worked in the field of people analytics, where we seek to leverage employee, management-, and business information to better organize and manage our personnel. Here, data has proven valuable itself indispensible for the organization of the future. Data and analytics have not traditionally been high on the list of…
Animated Citation Gates turned into Selection Gates
Bret Beheim — senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology — posted a great GIF animation of the response to his research survey. He calls the figure citation gates, relating the year of scientific publication to the likelihood that the research materials are published open-source or accessible. To generate the visualization, Bret used…
Privacy, Compliance, and Ethical Issues with Predictive People Analytics
November 9th 2018, I defended my dissertation on data-driven human resource management, which you can read and download via this link. On page 149, I discuss several of the issues we face when implementing machine learning and analytics within an HRM context. For the references and more detailed background information, please consult the full dissertation. More interesting reads on ethics in machine learning can be found here….
Analytics in HR case study: Behind the scenes
Past week, Analytics in HR published a guest blog about one of my People Analytics projects which you can read here. In the blog, I explain why and how I examined the turnover of management trainees in light of the international work assignments they go on. For the analyses, I used a statistical model called a survival…
Predicting Employee Turnover at SIOP 2018
The 2018 annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference featured its first-ever machine learning competition. Teams competed for several months in predicting the enployee turnover (or churn) in a large US company. A more complete introduction as presented at the conference can be found here. All submissions had to be open source and the…
13 Data-Driven Insights to Improve Your Job Search
Talent.Works is back, elaborating on the applicant characteristics that relate to landing an interview. While the majority of applicants has a meager ~2% chance of getting invited to an interview, some applicants do way better! What accounts for their success? Analyzing 4000+ applicants, Talent.Works found 13 factors that related to getting an interview. There are…
Predictive HR Analytics
Tilburg University has set up a masterclass Predictive HR Analytics. In 3 days, the Professional Learning program will teach you all you need to know to implement predictive analytics and take HR to the next level. More information can be found here. What makes this program unique? The masterclass Predictive HR Analytics goes beyond HR analytics…
HR Analytics: Een 7e zintuig voor de moderne HR-professional
Wat gebeurt er in Nederland op het gebied van HR Analytics? Dit nieuwe boek laat zien wat enkele Nederlandse organisaties de afgelopen jaren daadwerkelijk hebben ondernomen. De verschillende auteurs, waaronder ik mij mag scharen, geven een kijkje in de praktijkwereld van het onderbouwen van HR-beslissingen aan de hand van diverse databronnen en analysetechnieken. Ze verklaren…
