Abstract

Employee training is an important part of all HR activities in an organization. Training and development improves the efficiency and effectiveness of people. The case is about a small pharmaceutical company in India. Shyam, the Unit Head HR, was faced with tough questions on whether training given to the employees was effective. While he had certain notions on why employee training had been required during the past year, he wanted to use HR analytics. He wanted to understand whether there was any correlation between the training programs and improvement in employee performance within the company so that he could take remedial measures.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• To employ HR analytics to analyze HR training data.
• To derive inferences and adopt remedial measures using paired T Test, ANOVA, and HR analytics.

Keywords

HR Analytics; Talent Management; Training Analysis; paired T Test; ANOVA; Variance; Standard Deviation; Null Hypothesis; Alternate Hypothesis