Analytical Maximization of Employees Value: A Winning Strategy for Organizational Goal Attainment
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Karibo Benaiah Bagshaw , Joy Amina Okwakpam ,
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Abstract
In order to meet set goals, organizations need the efforts of employees, who in turn have values that the organization need to maximize. This empirical study attempted to examine if the use of analytical methods in maximizing employees’ value has any effect on the organizational goal attainment of manufacturing firms. It examined two dimensions of employees’ values (exchange and social values) and three levels of analytics (descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics). The study is a cross sectional one that adopted the use of a questionnaire to 5 top managers of 48 manufacturing firms. The data were analyzed with the use of percentages, mean and standard deviation. The result showed that the use of analytics in maximizing employees’ values has a positive impact on organizational goal attainment. It recommended that business leaders need to understand the different values employees expect from the organization in order to effectively maximize their values. Finally, it recommended that organizations should learn to adopt the higher levels of analytics such as the predictive and prescriptive analytics in maximizing employees’ values in order to effectively achieve their goal attainment objectives.
Keywords
Analytics; Employee Value; Value maximization; Goal attainment.
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