HR Data Management

If you work with HR data, you want it be useful for the business. And so, if you’re like me, you keep up on the latest in People analytics. Here’s a worthwhile article from SHRM reassuring you that lots of folks aren’t where they want to be in People Analytics.

You have lots of HR software with lots of acronyms.

And you have ambitious visions of team members using cool visualizations to improve outcomes and efficiency.

HR Data security 101

Most of the time folks only care about data security when there’s a problem.  When PII (Personally Identifiable Information) was leaked.   Or someone had access to some payroll or other key data that they shouldn’t have seen.  Oops.

Many, many HR data analytics projects don’t work because proper Master Data Management is not in place.

HR Master data management means that key data about every employee, every job code, and every department is consistent in all your systems.