Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur

Post Graduate Programme in Management

HR Analytics
Credit 1

Instructor : TBD
Academic Year : 2018-2019
Trimester : IV
Email : d.chatterjee@iimkashipur.ac.in.,

Phone : 8191802312

Prerequisites : Minimum C grade in Statistics

Course description

This course introduces the students to the theory, concepts, and business application of human
resource research, data, metrics, systems, analyses, and reporting. The student will develop an
understanding of the role and importance of HR analytics, and the ability to track, store, retrieve,
analyse and interpret HR data to support decision making. The students will use applicable
benchmarks and statistical analytical tools HR metrics analysis, and will prepare reports to
present findings and recommendations.

Course Objectives

1. Understand how to source data and use analytics for measuring employee and
organizational performance.
2. Research and analyse appropriate internal and external human resource metrics,
benchmarks, and indicators relevant to an organization’s mission or goals.
3. Apply best practices for using HR analytics to support making data-driven decisions.
4. Prepare an analysis of workforce and talent data to identify trends and other actionable
performance information.

The main objectives of this course are to improve the ability of students to:

1. PLO1e: Identify, analyze, and comprehend the assumptions and underlying premises in a
business situations.
2. PLO1f Apply analytical techniques/models/frameworks to reflect critically on specific
business contexts.
3. PLO1h Analyze and connect functional areas of Business
4. PLO3b Ability to make Business decision

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Evaluation

Quiz/presentations : 20%
Group Assignment : 30%
Mid term : 25%
End Term Examination : 25%

Pedagogy

 The course pedagogy includes classroom lectures.

 Case discussions.
 Class activity and assignments.
 Presentations, quizzes, examinations, assignments, class and group activities, class
participation will be considered for continuous assessment.

Readings

a. Text Book

Book name Author Publisher

Predictive Analysis for Human Resources Jac Fitz-Enz Wiley

and John R.
Mattox II

b. Reference Book

Book name Author Publisher

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Jac Fitz-enz AMA

Economic Value of Your Company’s
Human Capital Investments

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 Session Topics Readings
1 Understanding HR Analytics Ch 1
 Defining HR analytics
 Human capital data storage
 HR analytics and HR people strategy
 Current state of HR analytics
2 HRIS Ch 2
 Information sources
 Using SPSS
 Preparing the data

3 Strategies for analysis Ch 3

 Descriptive reports to predictive analysis
 Statistical significance
 Types of data
 Categorical/continuous variables
 How to use individual and group level data for
analysis
 Statistical tool kit
4 Review/discussion/Quiz/In class assignment
5-6 Diversity Analytics Case based
 What is diversity and inclusion?
 Measuring and managing diversity and inclusion
 Few case based examples to be discussed and
performed in SPSS in class, e.g., exploring
diversity across teams using descriptive statistics,
gender and job grade analysis etc.
7-8 Employee attitude: engagement and worforce perceptions Case based
 Defining employee engagement
 Measuring employee engagement
 Metrics
 Factor analysis usage
 Few case based examples to be discussed and
performed in SPSS in class, e.g., exploratory factor
analysis/reliability analysis, reliability and factor
testing with group level data
9 Review/discussion/Quiz/In class assignment
10 Presentation
11-12 Predicting employee turnover Case based
 Why turnover is important to analyse
 Descriptive turnover analysis

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  Few case based examples to be discussed and
performed in SPSS in class, e.g., using frequency
tables to explore regional differences in individual
staff turnover, using one way ANOVA to analyse
team-level turnover
13 Predicting employee performance Case based
 Measuring performance
 Understanding predicting performance by practical
examples using multi linear regression
14-15 Recruitment and selection analysis Case based
 Reliability and validity of selection methods
 Human bias in recruitment and selection
 Few case based examples to be discussed and
performed in SPSS in class, e.g., consistency of
gender in the application pool using regression
16 Business applications Case based
 Potential impact of training program
 Predicting the likelihood of leaving
 Predictive models for graduate recruitment
decision etc.
17-18 Advanced HR analytics techniques Case based
 Moderation and interaction analysis
 Structural equation modelling Latent class analysis
19-20 Presentation

Course Policies:

1. Responsibility for Course Materials: You are responsible for all material covered in class. If
you are absent, you are responsible for obtaining the information you missed.

2. Classroom Behavior: We expect you to participate in class activities in a mature and

appropriate manner. Disruptive or otherwise unacceptable behavior will not be tolerated.

3. Academic Conduct: All members of the academic community at IIM Kashipur are expected
to practice and uphold standards of academic integrity and honesty. Academic integrity means
representing oneself and one’s work honestly. Misrepresentation is cheating since it means
students are claiming credit for ideas or work not actually theirs and are thereby seeking a grade
that is not actually earned. Following are some examples of academic dishonesty:

a. Cheating on quizzes and examinations: This includes using materials such as books
and/or notes when not authorized by the instructor, copying from someone else’s paper,
helping someone else copy work, substituting another’s work as one’s own, theft of
exam copies, or other forms of misconduct on exams.

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b. Plagiarizing the work of others: Plagiarism is using someone else’s work or ideas
without giving that person credit; by doing this students are, in effect, claiming credit
for someone else’s thinking. Whether students have read or heard the information used,
they must document the source of information. When dealing with written sources, a
clear distinction should be made between quotations (which reproduce information
from the source word-for-word within quotation marks) and paraphrases (which digest
the source of information and produce it in the student’s own words). Both direct
quotations and paraphrases must be documented. Even if students rephrase, condense
or select from another person’s work, the ideas are still the other person’s, and failure
to give credit constitutes misrepresentation of the student’s actual work and plagiarism
of another’s ideas. Buying a paper or using information from the World Wide Web or
Internet without attribution and handing it in as one’s own work is plagiarism.

c. Falsifying records or providing misinformation regarding one’s credentials.

d. Unauthorized collaboration on computer assignments and unauthorized access to and

use of computer programs, including modifying computer files created by others and
representing that work as one’s own.

e. Unless they specifically indicate otherwise, instructors expect individual, unaided work
on homework assignments, exams, lab reports and computer exercises, and
documentation of sources when used. If instructors assign a special project other than
or in addition to exams, such as a research paper, or original essay or a book review,
they intend that work to be completed for that course only. Students must not submit
work completed for a course taken in the past or for a concurrent course unless they
have explicit permission to do so from both faculty members.

f. Any academic misconduct will automatically result in a failing grade for the
course and the student will be reported to the committee on academic misconduct
for further disciplinary action.

g. Attendance: I do not take attendance on a daily basis. As far as I am concerned, you

are an adult and it is your decision whether or not you attend class. However, your
decision not to attend a class may have negative consequences for your class grade.

h. Late submission: Any late submission beyond the deadline (even by few seconds) will
result in 0 point. Except in case of emergencies, with a doctor's note, any questions
about late submission will not be entertained.

i. Missed exam: There is no make-up for the missed exams unless the student has
discussed and made an arrangement with the instructor for a valid reason beforehand.
In all other instances, the student must produce a valid doctor's note for the day the
student missed the exam. Such doctor's note must be produced in the same week the
student missed the exam. And no make up of missed exam in case of surprise tests,
even if doctor’s certificate is produced later, but NO mail has been sent before the
respective class hours to the faculty.

j. Grade Discussion: It is the student’s responsibility to monitor his or her own grades
and raise any questions s/he may have within one week of the grades assigned.

k. Extra Credit: No Extra credit shall be given to make-up for missed quizzes,
assignments, exams, project, or poor performance in the course.