Developing Human Capital / SAS Institute Inc (ePub)

Don't squander your most valuable resource!

Collectively, your workers are your company's most important and
most valuable asset. To make the most of this asset, nothing beats
quantitative performance and investment measurement. Learning and
Development is an 80 billion-dollar industry, and every valuable
employee represents a sizable investment on the part of your
company. To keep your business moving forward, effective management
of human capital is crucial. It generates plenty of data, and deep
analysis of this data helps you provide feedback and make
adjustments to capitalize on the combined knowledge, skills, and
creativity of your workers. Developing Human Capital: Using
Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development
Investments provides a guidebook for collecting, organizing,
and analyzing the data surrounding human capital so you can make
the most of your employees' potential.

* Use predictive analysis to optimize human capital
investments

* Learn effective study design and alignment

* Get the tools you need for measurement, surveys, and
analysis

* Decide what to measure and how to measure it

* Outline your company's current and future analytics technology
needs

* Map data sources, and overcome barriers to data collection

Authors Gene Pease, Bonnie Beresford, and Lew Walker provide
case studies in which major companies applied human capital
analytics to guide people decisions, and expand upon the role of
analytics in Learning and Development. Developing Human Capital:
Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development
Investments is an essential guide to 21st century human
resources and management practices, and can keep you from
squandering your company's most valuable resource.