People analytics · practical playbook01
From a business question to a measured outcome
A complete worked route through casual-worker retention, from definitions to a fair pilot and an honest conclusion.
ADM HR editorial workflow5 min
HRM / subject guide
Evidence, analytics & digital HR
Start with a useful question, evaluate evidence and use data and technology with judgement.
A suggested reading route
From understanding to practice.
Begin with the first guide, or choose the question you are working on. Each guide connects explanation, application, limitations and further reading.
People analytics · models & decisions02
People analytics maturity: capability before complexity
Develop trustworthy reporting, useful analysis and evaluation without treating prediction as the destination.
ADM HR editorial capability map5 min
HRM practice03
Digital HR: improve the service before choosing the system
Use technology to support a defined people problem, with practical checks on data, access and human accountability.
ADM HR2 min
HRM practice04
Knowledge management: helping useful knowledge travel
Connect documents, experience and relationships so people can find and apply what colleagues know.
ADM HR2 min
HRM practice05
Competency frameworks: describe useful behaviour clearly
Build a small, observable framework that supports development and fairer decisions rather than vague personality judgements.
ADM HR2 min
People analytics · models & decisions06
Logic models for HR interventions
Separate resources, activities and deliverables from the changes an initiative is meant to produce.
Programme-evaluation tradition5 min
People analytics · models & decisions07
Balanced Scorecard & the HR scorecard
Connect measures to a strategy across financial, stakeholder, process and learning perspectives.
Robert S. Kaplan5 min
People analytics · models & decisions08
Human capital ROI: formula and interpretation
Calculate a broad workforce-cost ratio and understand why it is not an individual employee valuation.
Workforce financial-metrics tradition associated with Jac Fitz-enz5 min
People analytics · models & decisions09
Employee-lifecycle analytics
Follow attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development, performance, retention and exit with consistent definitions.
Common HR practice framework5 min
People analytics · models & decisions10
Employee segmentation: finding patterns fairly
Look beneath organisation-wide averages while keeping groups meaningful, proportionate and confidential.
Analytical grouping practice5 min
People analytics · models & decisions11
Turnover prediction & flight-risk models
Understand probabilities, validation and fairness before using a model to support retention decisions.
Predictive modelling practice5 min
People analytics · models & decisions12
Employee lifetime value: a scenario model
Explore onboarding, development and retention scenarios without assigning a price to a person.
Practitioner concept associated with Maia Josebachvili5 min
People analytics · technique13
Cohort analysis: compare like starting points
A cohort is a group defined by a shared starting event or period, such as joining in a particular quarter.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique14
Trend analysis: distinguish change from noise
Trend analysis examines how a measure changes over time.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique15
Benchmarking people data without false comparisons
Benchmarking compares a measure with another period, unit or external reference.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique16
Correlation: association is not a cause
Correlation summarises association between variables.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique17
Regression: estimate relationships with assumptions
Regression estimates how an outcome relates to one or more predictors under a specified model.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique18
Survival analysis for retention
Survival analysis studies time until a defined event.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique19
Scenario modelling for workforce decisions
Scenario modelling explores what follows from alternative assumptions.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique20
Root-cause analysis: investigate the system
Root-cause analysis is often used as shorthand for investigating why a problem occurred.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
People analytics · technique21
A/B tests and pilot evaluation in HR
A pilot explores feasibility; an impact evaluation asks what changed because of an intervention.
Statistical and evaluation practice4 min
Where this subject grows next
This is a foundation, not complete coverage of every handbook chapter.
- Vendor evaluation examples
- Data quality and research appraisal exercises