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HR and analytics: why HR is set to fail the big data challenge
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The HR world is abuzz with talk of big data and the transformative potential of HR analytics. This article takes issue with optimistic accounts, which hail HR analytics as a ‘must have’ capability that will ensure HR's future as a strategic management function while transforming organisational performance for the better. It argues that unless the HR profession wises up to both the potential and drawbacks of this emerging field and engages operationally and strategically to develop better methods and approaches, it is unlikely that existing practices of HR analytics will deliver transformational change. Indeed, it is possible that current trends will seal the exclusion of HR from strategic, board‐level influence while doing little to benefit organisations and actively damaging the interests of employees.
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“AI-driven algorithmic monitoring thus allows to collect and record a vast array of new information and metrics, such as emotions (Chan, 2018;Pinheiro, Ramos, Donizete, Picanço, & De Oliveira, 2017), movements, sleep time, physical and health condition, social media activity, internet browser history (Angrave, Charlwood, Kirkpatrick, Lawrence, & Stuart, 2016;Leicht-Deobald et al., 2019)”
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“Descriptive algorithms are likely to reinvent the world of performance management (PM) in multiplying the metrics available to precisely quantify various facets of employees' actions, emotions, performance, behaviors, attitudes and physical state (Angrave et al., 2016;Tambe et al., 2019), but also customer-related information such as satisfaction and traffic (Evans & Kitchin, 2018;Levy & Barocas,”
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“Moreover, predictive artificial intelligence algorithms, like the famous IBM Watson, are also used to forecast the future performance of employees based on multiple data sources such as past performance, existing and potential projects, and recent and future training opportunities (Angrave et al., 2016;Edwards & Edwards, 2019;Greenfield, 2018;Kirimi & Moturi, 2016;Sajjadiani, Sojourner, Kammeyer-M”
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“This forecasted performance is often used as the basis to set future goals or expectations (Angrave et al., 2016;Edwards & Edwards, 2019), to estimate the training needs (Horesh, Varshney, & Yi, 2016), to determine pay raise (Greenfield, 2018) or to promote employees to managerial positions (Mallafi & Widyantoro, 2016).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Angrave, D., Charlwood, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Lawrence, M., & Stuart, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Loughborough University (GB)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- Independent Strategic HR Analytics Consultant
- Corresponding author
- Charlwood, Andy
- Venue
- Human Resource Management Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-11
- ISSN
- 0954-5395 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-8583
- OpenAlex
- W2222612072
- Cited by
- 633
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 71 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 87 · 2022: 77 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 14
- FWCI
- 68.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- dspace.lboro.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Human Resource Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › AI and HR Technologies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Human Resource and Talent Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Keywords
- HR analytics, big data, human resource management, strategic management, organizational performance, transformative change, employee interests
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