It was said not long ago that 'big data' would move HR
from business support to business leadership.
In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Professor
Peter Cappelli expressed some reservations. He argues that
"there is no such thing as big data in HR".
The hope was that HR data collected by large employers and
subjected to big data analytical processes would reveal valuable
insights into such critical questions as what type of person to
hire for a given role or who make the best business leaders.
The challenges of big data analytics in HR:
- Professor Cappelli points out that
most global companies have thousands of employees and not millions.
Datasets of this size, he says, do not qualify as 'big
data' at all.
