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High Performer Percentage
Percentage of employees rated as high performers
How it’s computed
COUNT(rating >= 4) / COUNT(all)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
What this metric can show you
High Performer Percentage can tell roughly 23 pre-built stories — each a designed scene the data either confirms or it doesn’t. Bring your numbers and the Story Finder runs every one of these shapes against them.
specific to performance & development
It's two companies, split by manager
leadership-quality · T1
Most are fine — a tail is struggling
engagement · T1
The system isn't differentiating
measurement-health · T1
You've quietly stopped promoting from within
development-mobility · T1
Your ratings are compressing
performance · T1
universal shapes — any single metric can take these
A few large values are doing the talking
any focus · T1
A one-time event, not a trend
any focus · T1
It doesn't track — the premise is false
any focus · T1
It's concentrated — one group stands apart
any focus · T1
Scenes are pre-built; your data is the toggle. Browse the full deck or watch one play end-to-end in The Quiet Exodus.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“In other words, business/work units with high employee engagement nearly double their odds of above-average composite performance in their own organizations and increase their odds for above-average success across business/work units in all organizations by 2.1 times. [image…”
— First Break All the Rulesmatch 57%
“The tilde (~) operator signifies “depends on,” so this is a perfect example of a dependent variable and an independent variable. summary() Get the results of the logistic regression Here’s the output: [image file=Image00160.jpg] [image file=Image00161.jpg] To predict whether an…”
— People Analytics Text Mining with Rmatch 56%
“Enter the formula for probability of the event (i.e. Buy) in your Excel spreadsheet, using the formula below:P(X) = e L / (1 + e L ) [image file=Image00162.jpg] From the spreadsheet, if Staff compa-ratio is 0.7, Age is 30, and Travel time is 1 (far), the probably that he will…”
— Predictive HR Analyticsmatch 56%
Resources: First Break All the Rules · People Analytics Text Mining with R · Predictive HR Analytics