Human Capital Analytics Group
The Human Capital Analytics Group (HCA) represents researchers with an interest in data-driven human capital decision-making.
About HCA
The research in Human Capital Analytics is centered around the use of data to make companies better equipped to analyze and use their HR data more efficiently.
Over the last decade Human Capital Analytics has become more and more integrated into the teaching and research agenda of CBS. Hence, it is possible to study HCA related topics as part of the masters and MBA study programs at CBS.
HCA no longer offers external network and teaching activities.
Research collaboration
The research of the HCA group has been carried out in close collaboration with companies and has made a significant contribution to the growing awareness of the use of data in HR management. You can read some of the testimonials below.
Want to learn more?
If you wish to find out more about the current research please see the personal website of Professor Dana Minbaeva.
Publications
The list below collects written outputs related to Human Capital Analytics. Readers will find three types of material:
How I did it
Short industry cases describing how organisations have used HR and workforce data in practice.
Executive summaries
Concise summaries of influential research articles on HR analytics, performance, diversity, engagement, turnover and related topics. Each summary includes key findings and links to further reading.
HCA Publications
Selected publications authored by members of the Human Capital Analytics Group, including articles, reports and commentary pieces on the development and use of human capital analytics.
"How I did it" stories – testimonials from industry
- Full Story: PayAnalytics (PDF)
- Full Story: Predictive recruitment - Praice (PDF)
- Full Story: Unleash the Business Value of Diversity (PDF)
- Full Story: Linking Employee Engagement to Customer Experience (PDF)
- Full Story: Ensuring High Employee Engagement (PDF)
- Full Story: Investigating the business case for staff diversity (PDF)
- Full Story: Analyzing the impact of leadership on values alignment among HQ and subsidiaries (PDF)
- Full Story: Understanding the relationship between Employee Engagement and Safety (PDF)
HCA Publications
- Full Paper: Human Capital Analytics: Why Aren't We There?
- Full Paper: Competencies for the future: CBS Master Student Survey (PDF)
- Full Paper: Building Credible Human Capital Analytics for Organizational Competitive Advantage (PDF)
- Full Paper: Too Much Focus on Point Estimates: A Severe Trap in HC Analytics (PDF)
- Full Paper: Can You Aggregate Individual-Level Data? (PDF)
- Full Paper: Skills Gap in Denmark (PDF)
- Full Paper: Employee Engagement Surveys: The Use and Usefulness (PDF)
- Full Paper: Five costly mistakes companies make when working with human capital data (PDF)
- Full Paper: Hvorfor gætte, når du kan vide? Human Capital Analytics
- Full Paper: Samfundsrelevant Forskning På CBS - Socially Relevant Research at CBS (PDF)
- Full Paper: Stop Guessing - Start Knowing! (PDF)
- Full Paper: Sådan bruger du dine medarbejder-data (PDF)
Executive summaries
- Executive Summary: Performance Appraisal and Performance Management
- Executive Summary: The Diversity-Valuing Behaviour for Non-White and Female Leaders
- Executive Summary: Multisource Feedback, Human Capital, and the Financial Performance of Organisations
- Executive Summary: Diversity Goals and the Pay Premium for High-Potential Women
- Executive Summary: How Turnover Affects Organizational Performance
- Executive Summary: Causes and Consequences of Collective Turnover
- Executive Summary: The Dynamic Nature of Collective Turnover
- Executive Summary: The Relationship between Performance Ratings and Job Performance
- Executive Summary: The Influence of Personality on Job Performance and Career Success
- Executive Summary: Does Job Satisfaction Increase with Time?
- Executive Summary: An Integrated Theory of Employee Engagement
- Executive Summary: Linking Working Conditions to Burnout, Engagement, and Safety
- Executive Summary: Linking Job Resources and Demands to Engagement and Burnout
- Executive Summary: Modelling Teamwork Engagement
- Executive Summary: Employee Engagement Decreases Job Burnout
- Executive Summary: Work Engagement and Its Relations with Task and Contextual Performance
- Executive Summary: Collective Organizational Engagement: Antecedents and Connection to Firm Performance
- Executive Summary: Building a Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation That is Useful in Practice
- Executive Summary: Employee Engagement Leads to Financial Performance
- Executive Summary: How to measure work engagement
- Executive Summary: How to improve your team´s well-being and engagement with JD-R-model
- Executive Summary: Tips for increasing job engagement to drive job performance
- Executive Summary: How to reduce conflict and turnover in diverse teams? Create an inclusive climate!
- Executive Summary: Can diversity help drive performance for your team?
- Executive Summary: The effect of line manager communication on the success of HR policies
- Executive Summary: Inclusive Leaders Help to Reduce Turnover in Diverse Teams
- Executive Summary: Awareness of HR practices increases employee commitment and achievement of organizational goals
- Executive Summary: HRM systems affect individual and firm performance
- Executive Summary: Managing Age Diversity
- Executive Summary: HR practices are only as strong as the weakest link
- Executive Summary: For highest performing teams, reduce gender and age diversity and increase educational background and work-experience diversity