Human Capital Data Use: Building a System that Informs Strategic Human Capital Management

Details:

• Resource Type: Practice and Process Guide
• Estimated time: 2-4 meetings

Purpose:

• Understand how data supports HCMS goals
• Determine priorities for data capacity building next steps

Directions:

1. Convene the HCMS Alignment Team and read Human Capital Data Use: Building a System that Informs Strategic Human Capital Management. Be sure to include a member from the district or university’s information and technology department.
2. Refer to your grant program logic model as you read the guide, noting that different grant strategies (and related grant goals) will have different ways of measuring outputs and outcomes.
3. As you read through the guide, think about how one of your grant strategies could be applied in each section.
4. Choose one or two questions from each of the five sections in the paper guide and discuss as a team.

Reflection Questions:

1. What types of metrics or analytics would support your human capital management goals? (Hint: refer to logic model strategies for specificity on HCMS goals)
2. Does your current data system support your human capital goals/grant strategies? If not, what capacities need to be built?
3. What are the key decisions your organization wants to make regarding your key HCMS practices?
4. What data is necessary to support them?

Next Steps:

1. After familiarizing yourself with how data systems support and HCMS, examine the case study in the next resource section to learn how an urban district developed a district HCMS approach, aligned key recruitment and retention practices with the educator evaluation system, and used a sophisticated data approach to inform HCMS decisions, such as recruitment, hiring, and placement.