Singapore University of Social Sciences

HCM549 Managing and Measuring Human Capital Projects integrates three critical areas in human capital management: project management, human capital metrics, and predictive analytics. The first part of the course provide students with instruction in the fundamentals of project management, integrating insights derived from project management in other fields to elevate HCM practice. This section of the course details the complete project management process, from preparation and initiation to execution, administration, and quantitative evaluation of impact. In terms of evaluation via metrics, particular attention is paid to the need to isolate effects and attribute causality. In the latter part of the course, evaluation of HCM projects via metrics segues into the use of HCM data for predictive purposes. This part of the course covers HR information systems, important analytic techniques, data and variable types, and illuminating case studies in predictive analytics, before concluding with a discussion of the ethics and limitations of HCM metrics and analytics.