Usage of HR Analytics Tools Restoring Data Privacy in Data-Driven Organizations

For any business to be successful and effective the management has to use various management tools. Of late the use of business analytics techniques has become a buzzword. The human resource’s function is no exception to this. The use of HR Analytics in business has benefited operations. Whatever data the organization has related to any function including human resources, on the basis of which the decisions are taken, are important for the organization from internal as well as external angle. Thus, data privacy and data security become important and vital in the HR analytics of any organization. This paper explores the understanding of the concepts like business analytics, human resource analytics, where the organizations use the human resource analytics, what are the benefits of use of the human resource analytics, few industrial examples of human resource analytics, the importance of data in human resource analytics, importance in the minds of user about the privacy and security of data in HR Professionals, etc. A questionnaire was framed and circulated to head of human resource functions in order to study above matters related to human resource analytics and data privacy and security used in the human resource analytics. The expected outcome of this paper is the improvement and understanding of data privacy and security and the use of human resource analytics and the reactions of human resource professionals about the human resource analytics.