Leading with People Analytics (3 SCU)

Learning Outcomes

The goal is not to turn students into data scientists, but instead to help them gain an analytic advantage, whatever their formal role. Direct experience analyzing data will help students achieve this goal. While developing analytic skills and trying out tools and techniques, students will come to appreciate the opportunities, limits, and tensions involved in using data analytics to inform people issues, while simultaneously gaining deeper insight into the substance of the business issues in question.

Topics

Leading with People Analytics is designed to help students to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices in the organization. The best way to increase students; data fluency is to build hands-on skills by analyzing and interpreting data, which we do in this course in ways that complement the frameworks and intuitions already use to guide students’ actions as a manager. At a deeper level, students will sharpen the ability to think analytically through a data-driven lens.