Jennie Carlson is the EVP and Chief Human Resources officer at US Bancorp, the parent company of the U.S. Bank . They are the 5th largest bank in the US, with 67,000 employees. Jennie has been with ...

In a competitive and volatile business climate, people analytics is arguably more important than ever. But while HR departments understand the importance of data, what does people analytics really ...

Metrics often are associated most with financial measures, but more than 85 percent of all organizations track human resources data and use it to help measure the organization's performance and ...

This feature is part of a series focused exclusively on people analytics. To view other posts in the series, check out the spotlight page. There are various approaches to managing people data.

The final report by the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking promises to refocus attention on the use of performance data. This is not new of course; the use of metrics has evolved over more than ...

Our recent column on metrics and analytics triggered several stimulating exchanges. One thread running through the reaction to these proven practices, which have been widely used in business for ...

When I first started in HR, everyone saw our department as just the group that planned the company picnic. And they thought those picnics were equivalent to employee engagement. But these kinds of ...