NURS 632 Predict.Analysis for Business

This course develops students’ process modeling, data analytics, and decision-making skills regarding the management of people in an organization. Analytics includes data collection, organization, storage, analysis, and all the tools and techniques used to describe current processes, assess and address challenges, and plan for changes. Before managers can make use of people analytics, they must understand and describe human resource processes as well as relevant databases, information systems, and other information and resources available. Students in this people analytics course will develop an understanding of traditional work processes, HR management requirements, and HR information system architectures in the context of data-driven approaches to decision-making about people in organizations. Students will learn to model HR processes, develop queries, analyze data, and generate reports to make strategic decisions in areas of HR practice such as selection, compensation, performan