Big Data in Human Resources Management

Source: https://parsers.me/how-and-why-hr-uses-big-data-big-data-technologies-in-human-resources-management/

Highly successful companies understand the importance of acquiring and keeping top talent. Thereby, Human Resources departments are starting to dig into a massive competitive advantage by leveraging data analytics to identify top performers before they're hired, improve their retention rates, and keep their employees happy and engaged. So now it is the optimum time for HR professionals to start embracing data analytics.

According to the study of the audit company KPMG, Big Data is used in about 60% of HR departments of various organizations around the world. In this case, HR-data can be divided into 2 groups:
  • external information - profiles of candidates in social networks, resumes of applicants and job descriptions on specialized job search sites;
  • internal information - about employees, their duties and performance from corporate systems, Excel-tables and regulatory documents, as well as informal feedback from colleagues and management.

A large company usually hired more than 1.000 employees and it is hard to control all of the data with large quantities of different information. Several HR systems and a lot of unstructured data that needs to be visualized, interpreted, and analyzed, the implementation of big data is likely to be a good choice. Using big data will minimize the cost of bad hires, increase storage rates, predict employee's performance, and decrease the legal and ethical issues. Also, the article explained how big data, in particular, cover 9 areas of HR Analytics. So, in my opinion, big data is a really helpful tool for HR managers, especially in this digital era. Big data can reduce human error and also, make everything more practical.

Kelly (陳莉時)
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  1. Kathleen 蔣慧敏May 11, 2020 at 7:37 AM

    Kathleen 蔣慧敏
    Student ID : D0726920
    The title of the article that Kelly chose is “ How and Why HR Uses Big Data: Big Data Technologies in Human Resources Management “. I think Kelly has chosen a good topic because we are currently studying about business administration so it is also important for us to know about human resources management.
    As Kelly summarizes from the article, I learned that human resources in big data can be divided into 2 groups which are external information and internal information. External information is the information that are outside of the company such as information of candidates of social network, resumes of applicants and job descriptions on s job search sites. On the other hand, internal information is about the company’s employees’ duties, performances, and feedback from other colleagues.
    Since a company will mostly have a lot of employees, it is not easy to organize their information. As a result, big data analytics tools are very significant for human resources service in order to solve this problem. But how can big data help human resources services to manage their data? As written in the article there are several benefits that human resources management can receive from making a good use of big data.
    First, big data can help human resources management in doing the analysis and selecting the best candidates of employees from a huge number of unstructured data. Second, not only making an easier recruiting step but also big data can help a company in analyzing internal communications such as e-mail, telephone conversations, calendar meetings, correspondence in corporate chats, messengers, etc. Third, a company can use big data to analyze the work schedules of their employees. Last but not least, big data can also be used to organize staff distribution according to specific categories.

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  2. ThidaratJune 3, 2020 at 8:52 AM

    李曉棠 Thidarat Jansaman
    M0808869

    After reading this article, I have learn about how HR use Big Data analytics to help they analyze and manage in the data of employees in the company or organization and candidates who want to get a job in the company. From my perspective, Big Data is very helpful in HR management because it helps them to predict and prevent professional exhaustion, quickly find a suitable candidate and form a highly effective team. Furthermore, Big Data analytics also help them to solve problems in recruiting, talent management, identification of inefficient employees and other business tasks, thus, they can work efficiently and quickly that will be the best advantage of HR management in the company. Therefore, it will lead company to get a higher profits to identify and classify employees into a proper work and duty. In my opinion, the most important factors in HR analytics is leadership Analytics (leadership) because it helps HR to assess the contribution of managers by analyzing the performance of the entire organization and feedback from employees obtained by anonymous surveys, focus groups and personal interviews; so, HR manager will know what employees think about their work and duty, Are they satisfied in their work. From their employees feedback, HR manager could use that data to develop the company HR management, and solve employees’ problem recently.
    In addition, Big Data can help HR manager to Analytics of group interaction and mutual influence for the formation of effective teams, taking into account the dependence of the overall performance of the group on its constituent individuals. Thus, effective teams work together to drive company in the position of outstanding over other companies are the best advantage of this tools. This article is lead me to consider about HR management that give me a new knowledge in this area.

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