People analytics: Collecting data

Author: Graham Brown

Contributing author: Sarah Thompson

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses how HR teams can use people analytics to generate insights and inform business decisions. In this guide we discuss how the HR team can approach gathering the relevant data once they have identified what metrics they need.

Other guides in the series:

• People analytics: The core elements
• People analytics: Readying the HR function for people analytics
• People analytics: Identifying the objectives of the project
• People analytics: Deciding what to measure
• People analytics: Analysing the data
• People analytics: Communicating and acting on the findings
• People analytics: Measuring success
• People analytics: Data protection