Human capital is the stock of competences‚ knowledge and personality attributes embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. It is the attributes gained by a worker through education and experience. [1] Many early economic theories refer to it simply as workforce‚ one of threefactors of production‚ and consider it to be a fungible resource -- homogeneous and easily interchangeable. Other conceptions of this labor dispense with these assumptions. Contents [hide] •
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Definition of ’Human Capital’ A measure of the economic value of an employee’s skill set. This measure builds on the basic production input of labor measure where all labor is thought to be equal. The concept of human capital recognizes that not all labor is equal and that the quality of employees can be improved by investing in them. The education‚ experience and abilities of an employee have an economic value for employers and for the economy as a whole. Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/humancapital
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Leveraging Convergence. Rethinking Strategy for Highly Dynamic Markets For many businesses‚ the competitive landscape is dramatically changing due to convergence--a process by which the boundaries across industries or businesses or markets or geographies or customer experiences become blurred‚ resulting in new business opportunities to serve customer needs and improve customer value. To manage in a convergent economy‚ executives must understand the key drivers of a broader concept of convergence
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EVOLUTION OF APPRAISAL TO INDIVIDUALIZED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TOWARDS THE HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING PROCESS TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 2 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Body 2.1 A critique of the appraisal system 3 2.2 An evaluation of the process that enabled the performance system to develop 4 2.3 An evaluation of the issues of how the workforce could be included in this process 7 3.0 Conclusions 10 4.0 References 16
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Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies Universiti Teknologi MARA Executive Masters of Administrative Science EMA 700: HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT Assignment submission: Question 3 Individual Assignment NURUL AINA JOHARI 2012560701 MAY 2013 Declaration I hereby declare that the work contained in this research proposal is my own except those which have been duly identified and acknowledged. If I am later found to have plagiarized or to have committed other forms
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During the course of operations of any company‚ once the capital budgeting decisions have been made and proposals selected‚ the most important question before the finance manager is to arrange sufficient funds to finance them. Funds are also required to keep existing projects going on and the company can raise funds required for investment either by increasing the owners’ claims or the creditors’ claims or both. The claims of the owners increases when the company raises the funds by issuing equity shares
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The purpose and benefits of continuously improving my own performance at work is to move one step forward and exceed my limitations‚ achieve further goals‚ self-motivation‚ not to be the same person and on the same position after a certain of time‚ to exceed my performance at work and doing work‚ improving my own performance helps me to progress on my career and give me a job satisfaction. However this leads me to evaluate my own work by looking at the work that takes the most time‚ and what actions
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Case Summary Human Capital Consultants (HCC) is a consulting firm provides consultancy services regarding HR issues and specializes in strategic alignment and corporate change. The firm has a fairly friendly culture. As a result the employee turnover rate is considerably low. John Yeoung‚ the lead senior partner of HCC recruited Kay Johnson to join the firm. Though initially Kay was skeptical but after a lot of consideration along with pressure from Jhon and a lucrative compensation package Kay
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Financial performance analysis is the process of identifying the financial strengths and weaknesses of the firm by properly establishing the relationship between the items of balance sheet and profit and loss account. It also helps in short-term and long term forecasting and growth can be identified with the help of financial performance analysis.The dictionary meaning of ‘analysis’ is to resolve or separate a thing in to its element or components parts for tracing
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OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS PROJECT An Evaluation of the Business and Financial Performance of TESCO Plc Between 25 February 2006 and 28 February 2009 By: Kamruzzaman Shakil Table of Contents PAGE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Topic chosen 3 1.2 Reason for choosing the topic 3 1.3 Reason for choosing the
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