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📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
The next chapter of HR: Digital management and HR analytics. In recent years, digitization already changed many processes in companies. Now the work of HR managers is also facing a change. The digital age does not stop at talent acquisition, retention, and development. How can HR analytics support current processes here? Adaptations of culture, technology and competence requirements are changing business, organisational and work models. This requires new concepts and HR tools that continue to promise economic success even in times of disruption and crisis. The corporate culture 4.0 of our digital age as well as changed requirements for competences and knowledge of managers and employees are also important.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Research academic literature on the topic
- Collect examples of companies which pioneer people analytics
- Analyse their used tools and approaches
- Derive recommendations and insights to use analytics in HR effectively
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Human Resources / People Analytics / Data-Driven Innovation
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Better People Analytics: Measure Who They Know, Not Just Who They Are
Idea in brief The Challenge To bring the performance of people analytics up-and in line with the hype-companies need to do more than analyze data on demographic attributes. The Solution Employ relational analytics, which examines data on how people interact, to find out who has good ideas, who is influential, what teams will get work done on time, and more.
hbr.org
How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management
Since the early days of Google, people throughout the company have questioned the value of managers. That skepticism stems from a highly technocratic culture. As one software engineer, Eric Flatt, puts it, "We are a company built by engineers for engineers."
hbr.org
People Analytics
Advanced analytics can dramatically improve the way organizations identify, attract, develop, and retain talent. However, many organizations still make those decisions based on instinct and intuition. People Analytics helps managers and senior talent leaders unlock the power of data-increasing rigor, reducing bias, and improving performance.
www.mckinsey.com
HR und Analytics | Deloitte Deutschland
Was kann HR Analytics? Und wofür lässt es sich überhaupt verwenden? Deloitte bewertet den Nutzen.
www2.deloitte.com
Why you should apply analytics to your people strategy
In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, Simon London speaks with McKinsey partner Bryan Hancock and senior partner Bill Schaninger about why people analytics matters even more in a world awash with data and more advanced computing and analytics capabilities. Podcast transcript Simon London: Hello, and welcome to this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, with me, Simon London.
www.mckinsey.com
An evidence-based review of HR Analytics
Abstract Abstract We conduct an evidence-based review using an integrative synthesis of published peer-reviewed literature on Human Resource analytics (HR Analytics). Our search of several publication databases identified 60 articles on this topic, however only 14 articles were in quality peer-reviewed journals.
www.tandfonline.com
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of a bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de