This guide is designed to help all people professionals of any level learn the basics and improve their confidence and capability when using data. It also provides some useful tips on how to build an effective data driven people function.

Access a selection of research reports, white papers and commentaries on human capital analytics from leading organisations in the field.

Explore the research conducted as part of this programme of work

This survey explores the current state of the people profession in Asia Pacific, including career journeys and professional development

Find out how people data is used to drive business performance across MENA, SE Asia, US and UK and Ireland

This guidance, developed jointly by Mind and the CIPD, helps managers to support their employees' mental health at work

Assessing the evidence on the outcomes of diversity at work, the barriers keeping inequalities in place and how organisations can tackle these to make work an equal business

A global survey of multiple professional perspective on people data and people analytics

Practical workforce planning guidance to help HR and managers deliver a clear people strategy against changing organisational needs

Explores how learning interventions lead to business benefits

Learn more about neurodiversity, the benefits for organisations, and how to support neurodivergent people to be comfortable and successful at work

This CIPD report adds evidence to the ongoing debate on how emerging technologies are shaping the world of work, and the ethical issues related to the contemporary usage of these technologies.

Explores the complexities of power in the employment relationship and how employees can best shape their working lives

Understand who benefits from current business models and value creation by organisations

Reviews the academic literature on job quality, explores our understanding and proposes a usable and meaningful approach to measuring job quality

Our organisational field trial shows what difference strengths-based performance conversations can make in the UK public sector

Analyses the drivers of technology adoption using practitioner data, and evaluates the potential success of emerging technologies against learning design principles and evidence.

This positioning report explores different perspectives on employee voice in the modern world of work.

This report conceptualises a construct of purposeful leadership and investigates the impact it has on various employee and organisational outcomes.

Discovering academic evidence of this emerging people management practice