2025, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part O

Human resource analytics, or HRA, has emerged as a strategic tool for coordinating people strategies with organizational objectives in the age of data-driven decision-making. The development, themes, and applications of HRA are mapped in this paper through the integration of Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Biblioshiny and VOS viewer were used to analyze 82 articles using PRISMA (Moher et al., 2009). The results showed that after 2015, there was a rapid increase, with Europe, the USA, and India leading the way. Strategic decision-making, talent management, and predictive analytics are high-impact topics. Five major clusters are synthesized by the SLR, which is guided by the 5W1H framework (Callahan, 2014) and includes strategic alignment, operational efficiency, decision support, ethical challenges, and theoretical development. There are still gaps in the research on ethical governance, expanding to emerging markets, and connecting HRA to financial performance. This study makes a theoretical and practical contribution by providing a systematic road map for furthering research and assisting HR executives in using analytics to drive strategic change.