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Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 17th Edition
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Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 17th Edition

by Michael Armstrong, Stephen Taylor
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
776 pages
29h 22m
English
Kogan Page
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17 HR analytics

Chapter objectives

The aim of this chapter is to describe the significance of HR analytics as a basis of collecting the evidence needed for evidence-based HRM. It is set out under the following headings:

  1. The importance of HR analytics

  2. HR analytics defined

  3. The purpose of HR analytics

  4. The content of HR analytics

  5. The process of HR analytics

  6. Types of HR analytics

  7. Keeping people informed

The importance of HR analytics

HR analytics provides information about an organization’s people and HR processes. The effectiveness of evidence-based HRM is largely dependent on information about what is happening and what is likely to happen to people and the process of people management in the organization. As Dave Ulrich (1997: 7) emphasized: ...

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