During the Spieker Point Inc. open house, Walter Schwabe from FusedLogic TV interviews Dr. Mike Amett, an HR Analytics Professional, about how to maximize staffing effectiveness and minimize effort using HR Analytics.
Walter Schwabe:
“We’re here at Spieker Point Software Engineering and Solutions at their open house and eighth anniversary. Welcome to fusedlogic TV. I’m your host Walter Schwabe. I’m joined by Brent Collingwood with the U of A School of Business. Brent, thanks for being on the show.”
Dr. Mike Amett:
“Thank you.”
Walter Schwabe:
“So let’s talk a little bit about HR in general and you know here in alberta we’ve just passed four million people in population we’re growing like crazy. How do you see analytics impacting the staffing challenges that we’re having here in alberta?”
Dr. Mike Amett:
“Staffing is about bringing employees or regular citizens into a company crossing that boundary into what an organization is with the growth of albertans with the way the population is growing you really need to know where to target your efforts to track the people that you want inside of your company so having a better understanding of analytics helps you in two really clear ways. The first way is it helps you frame the problem properly having an understanding of where people are the types of profiles that they have the types of people you want in your company helps you do better than shooting in the dark with your advertisement efforts. The second way it helps you is it helps you really understand how effective your strategies are working and whether or not you need reframe them or refocus them.”
Walter Schwabe:
“It’s almost like a different type of sales job in a sense because you’re really trying to attract the right people for the culture the right skill sets those kinds of things so analytics is obviously helping companies and organizations with that in mind. Let’s talk a little bit about directly the employee and employer relationship and how might analytics be impacting that relationship.”
Dr. Mike Amett:
“Analytics can often be seen as management information for their benefit only employees have a lot of power in the employer relationship as well because they have a lot of contextual information they know what’s happening at the ground level so analytics is a bit of a balancing for management to know what’s happening generally across the company and with trends now for open data and employee empowerment the more management is sharing that information with employees the better the balance of power the better the flow of information and both sides of that equation can really work more effectively towards the goals of the organization.”
Walter Schwabe:
“You see that impacting as people retire they are taking a lot of knowledge with them out of the organization right and so you’ve got that legacy of information and knowledge that front-line knowledge you were just speaking about. Do you see analytics playing a role in that?”
Dr. Mike Amett:
“Analytics in the early stages really identified who was leaving so you had a good idea of what the challenges might be in the knowledge transfer or knowledge exchange the way that analytics is helping now is really helping to identify what are the critical knowledges to have and whether those are actually with the folks that are leaving or if they are with the folks that are staying.”
Walter Schwabe:
“Right, ok, Dr. Amett thank you so much for joining us here at Spieker Point on Fusedlogic TV. We’ve been speaking with Dr. Mike Amett and he’s an HR professional in Alberta here at Spieker Point at their open house. I’m your host Walter Schwabe.”