Join us for an in-person event, hosted by King's Business School.

The Department of Human Resource Management & Employee Relations at King’s Business School invites you to the book launch of Professor Dana Minbaeva's latest book 'Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective’. The event will feature  panel discussions where leading experts will explore the book’s themes. A networking reception will follow. 

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Event programme: 

8.30 – 9.00	Welcome and morning coffee
9.00 - 10.30	Workforce Analytics: How advanced analytics can inform strategic workforce decisions Mark Huselid, Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics; Director, Center for Workforce Analytics; Group Chair, International Business and Strategy, North Eastern University, USA. Alec Levenson, Senior Research Scientist, USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations, USA
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30	Executive Panel 1. Integrating Analytics with Organisational Development. Tim Haynes, VP People and Culture, Jazz Pharmaceutical. (and before that, GSK) will participate. Gillian Davis, Organisational Development Director, Microsoft
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 15.00	Workforce Analytics: Ethics, integration and driving sustainable change Martin Edwards, Professor and Deputy Head of UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia. Dana Minbaeva, Professor of Strategic Human Capital, King’s Business School, King’s College London.
15.00 – 15.30	Coffee break
15.30 – 17.00	Executive Panel 2. Moving from Insight to Impact. Thomas H. Rasmussen, VP Organisational Development, Shell Joost Govers, VP People Analytics, Shell
17.00 – 18.00	Networking reception

About the book

 

Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective provides a comprehensive sweep of key issues facing the evolving discipline of workforce analytics. The editors, all globally recognized in this field, have curated a collection of unique pieces that introduce workforce analytics, discuss its place in the HR sphere, and systematically address the key practical challenges faced by analytics experts working in and with organizations. Drawing on the combined expertise of the editors and a range of practicing expert contributors, the book provides a current, cutting-edge, and multi-perspective survey of workforce analytics. The contributions examine why workforce analytics is important, how it can help contribute to business success, and the considerations businesses need to address to maximize the benefit of this important HR expertise. A breakthrough text in a game-changing emerging discipline, the book is an essential resource for practitioners, students, and researchers in workforce analytics, people analytics, and human resource management more broadly.

 

Reviews & Testimonials

 

This is the book on workforce analytics for the serious practitioners in HR, scholars, and students alike. It brings back the strategic perspective by linking the workforce with how the company creates value and builds competitive edge. Outlining how analytics is properly done, it provides tips and tricks to avoid the pitfalls. Co-authored by some of the most renowned scholars in the field, this is bound to become the reference and standard for strategic work force analytics that add value to business for years to come. I thank the authors for painstakingly putting this together and strongly recommend HR to use it to improve its strategic impact while developing people’s ultimate potential.

Jorrit van der Togt, Executive Vice President Shell Downstream, Renewables and Energy Solutions

 

Workforce Analytics is a capability whose time has come. For too long, Analytics was “Reporting in disguise”. Now analytics generates real insights, tells us something we don’t know and offers the promise of powerful predictions. To reap this potential, we need to be able to ask the right questions, understand what to expect from Analytics colleagues and focus on insights that meaningfully impact strategic talent and business outcomes. Written to appeal to both academics and practitioners alike, this book points the way forward to using Workforce Analytics as a potential game-changing capability that - when done right - can build real competitive advantage.

Lucien Alziari, Executive vice-president and Chief HR Officer, Prudential Financial

 

Anyone interested in workforce analytics must have this compendium. Each of the 19 chapters by thought leaders offers exceptional insights into the why, what, and how of analytics. Collectively, these insights define the past, present, and future of the workforce analytics agenda.

Dave Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan.  Partner, The RBL Group