HR Analytics: Challenges and prospects of indian IT Sector

Human Resource (HR) is monumental for any organization. Besides knowledge, it brings ability and technical skills, essential for sustainable-success of any organization. Gauging the quality, status and prospects of human capital has always remained a challenge for organizations. It has been traditionally, the HR assessment was carried manually, which involved a lot of subjectivity. However, with the advent of technological advancement, application of sophisticated data mining analytics technique to HR data has given a different shape to analytics known as HR-analytics. Contemporarily, HR-analytics is emerging as a novel way to first augment and later exploit the HR for organizational gains. So far, HR-analytics has been adopted by Western IT sector but off late is paving its way in the Indian IT sector too. Present paper provides a captious-analysis of the HR-analytics in Indian IT sector and attempts to explore its approach towards analytics’ development and application. Corollary, HR-analytics in Indian IT sector has a vast-potential but inadequacies in HR systems, teams and people skills. This calls for need to have rational HR professionals for strategic decision-making and competitive advantage, as we believe creative and innovative minds can generate the best economies in the world. To ensure the presence of such talent in the organization, we need good assessment tool as well