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UTS CRICOS 00099F

21887 People Analytics

Assessment Task 1 Class Preparation Activities

Activity one • Using the 'Find ArticlesLinks to an external site.’ link on the UTS Library web page, locate and read one

of the following articles:

Davenport, T., Harris, J., & Shapiro, J. (2010). Competing on talent analyticsLinks to an external site.. Harvard Business Review, 88(10), 52-58.

Rasmussen, T., & Ulrich, D. (2015). Learning from practice: how HR analytics avoids being a management fadLinks to an external site.. Organizational Dynamics, 44(3), 236–242.

• Once you have read at least one article write a review that looks at the article’s strengths and weaknesses in terms of what the article is attempting to accomplish.

• Review should be approx. 200 words and include description, paraphrases, and your own analysis. Your review should also include the full reference for the chosen article using the either APA or UTS

Harvard referencing system.

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Activity two • Watch Tricia Wang’s 13-minute TED talk, ‘The human insights missing from big data’

• Summarize the main points, and discuss why is having more data not helping us to make better decisions?

• Your response should be approx. 200 words and include description, paraphrases, and your own analysis.

Activity three • Using the 'Find ArticlesLinks to an external site.’ link on the UTS Library web page, locate and read the following

article:

• Khilji, S., & Wang, X. (2007). New evidence in an old debate: Investigating the relationship between HR satisfaction and turnoverLinks to an external site.. International Business Review, 16(3), 377–395.

• Once you have read the article answer the following questions:

What methodology did the researchers employ to test their hypotheses?

What variables were used to analyse the relationship between turnover intention and HRM?

Explain the difference between independent variables, dependent variables and control variables. How were each of these variables used in the current article?

• Your answers should be fully reference using the either APA or UTS Harvard referencing system and in total should be contained within approximately 500 words.

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Activity Four • Using the 'Find ArticlesLinks to an external site.’ link on the UTS Library web page, locate and read the

following article:

• Lawler, E., Levenson, A., & Boudreau, J. (2004). HR metrics and analytics: use and impact. Human Resource Planning, 27(4), 27–35.

• Once you have read the article explain the difference between efficiency, effectiveness, and impact metrics.

• Your answer should be fully reference using the either APA or UTS Harvard referencing system and in total should be contained within approximately 200 words.

• Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm

Activity Five • Numbers can be used in a variety of different ways in data sets, hence Stevens in 1946 developed a

way of distinguishing between various uses. Stevens details four levels of measurement, each of which gives rise to numbers which carry different amounts of information. These measurements scales are:

Nominal scale

Ordinal scale

• Explain your understanding of each of the levels of measurement.

• Your answers should be fully reference using the either APA or UTS Harvard referencing system and in total should be contained within approximately 500 words.

• Stevens, S., & Stevens, S. (1946). On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 103(2684), 677–680.

• Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm

Interval scale

Ratio scale

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Activity Six • Watch David McCandless’ 18-minute TED talk, The beauty of data visualization

• David suggests that good design is the best way to navigate the information glut. What does he mean by this?

• Your response should be approx. 200 words and include description, paraphrases, and your own analysis.

• Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm

Completion options • Activities 1 – 3 already completed

• There are two options for the completion of the final work:

Option One

o Complete the remaining three activities as set out in the previous slides.

o In this option each of the remaining activities are worth 10% each

o Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm

Option Two

o Complete a single activity which is a modified version of activity four or six

o In you choose this option the single activity will be worth 30%

o The following slide details what is required, if you chose to complete option two.

o Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm

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Option Two Activity Locate and read: Lawler, E., Levenson, A., & Boudreau, J. (2004). HR metrics and analytics: use and impact. Human

Resource Planning, 27(4), 27–35.

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Watch David McCandless’ 18-minute TED talk, The beauty of data visualization

• Write a 500-word review of the article or video. In writing the review you should consider the following:

• Objectives: what does the article or video set out to do?

• Concepts: what are the central concepts? Are they clearly defined?

• Argument: what is the central argument?

• Contribution: how well does the work advance our knowledge?

Note as the reader I am not interested in a general descriptive overview of the article or video. You should be providing a critical assessment of the ideas and arguments that are being presented by the author.

• Please upload this completed before Monday 19th October at 23:59pm