Max Blumberg talks with Uri Gal, Associate Professor for Information Systems at the University of Sydney. The push to use data and analytics to drive decision-making in HR - as in the wider business - continues apace around the world. To varying degrees of advancement and success, human instinct continues to give ground to algorithms in guiding business strategy.

As a sociologist as well as an analyst, Uri talks with Max about what he sees as the potential pitfalls along the seemingly inexorable data-driven journey:

• The major assumptions behind People Analytics, and how valid these assumptions really are
• The dangers involving bias, and whether analytics is a help or a hindrance in overcoming it
• Ethical issues involved in People Analytics - privacy, employee isolation and the mechanised workforce
• Practical issues - the impact on managerial skills, innovation and worker motivation.

A provocative conversation that challenges a lot of the mainstream thought in this area. Please leave your comments below - join the conversation.