HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL BY: JOSEPH KIOKO REG. NO: D80/61281/2011 DATE: 05/06/2013 LECTURER: PROF. P. O. K’OBONYO Introduction and Definitions: Human capital is defined by the OECD (1998‚ p9) as “the knowledge‚ skills and competences and other attributes embodied in individuals that are relevant to economic activity.” While Duration of schooling and levels of qualification are the standard measures used to measure human capital the OECD itself
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CHAPTER 1 The Basic Theory of Human Capital 1. General Issues One of the most important ideas in labor economics is to think of the set of marketable skills of workers as a form of capital in which workers make a variety of investments. This perspective is important in understanding both investment incentives‚ and the structure of wages and earnings. Loosely speaking‚ human capital corresponds to any stock of knowledge or characteristics the worker has (either innate or acquired) that contributes
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Intellectual capital-Tomorrow’s assets‚ today’s challenge Executive summary Abstract This report has the following objectives: Defining the intellectual capital; exploring how to change the tacit knowledge into intellectual knowledge; suggesting how to turn intellectual capital into revenue; highlighting the intellectual management in enterprises. With increasing emphasis on that intellectual property is the greatest asset‚ this report also investigates the ways to protect intellectual capital in company
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1. WHAT IS CAPITAL FORMATION? ITS ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Capital formation is one of the major factors in economic development. It is the increase in the stock of both material and human capital by making available a part of society’s currently available resources. Capital formation results when some proportion of society’s present income is saved and invested in order to increase material as well as human capital. The meaning of capital formation is that socitey does not apply to the needs
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Human Capital | 25.März 2013 | Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………..…………………………………………….. Meaning and Importance of Human Capital………………………………………….. How to acquire Human Capital History………………………………………………………………………………………… Resource based vs. Knowledge based Economy…………………………………… Impact of Human capital………………………………………………………………….. Measurements of Human Capital……………………………………………………….. Output-Based Approach……………………………………………………………….. Cost-Based
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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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1.1. Definition of intellectual capital and a brief history of IC management Before someone can measure something‚ he/she has to know what to count. So how should intellectual capital be defined? A universally accepted definition is the first step toward standardization‚ but still it is hard to find the best one for "intellectual capital". In this section I ’ll define intellectual capital and study the history of its development. Intellectual capital is knowledge that can be exploited for
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Production is bound to take place with the combination of factors of production called as land‚ labor‚ capital and organization. In modern economics‚ enterprise has come to occupy a very important role in production so as to deal with that on a separate footing as an agent of production. Production‚ according to Hicks‚ is "any activity directed to the satisfaction of other people’s wants through exchange". Production in economics means creation of economic utilities‚ as man cannot produce matter
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WORKING CAPITAL AND FIXED CAPITAL AND ITS ADVANTAGES Introduction: A firm requires funds to acquire two types of assets : fixed assets and current assets .Fixed assets include land biulding ‚ plant‚ and machinary ‚ vehicles ‚ equipment etc.These assets relatively permanent in nature and are necessary for carrying on the bussiness .Current assets ‚on the other hand ‚are kept for supporting day-to-day operations and keep changing during the course of the business.They liquidated within short period
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for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Does cross-cultural adjustment coincide with career capital growth? Evidence from Vienna‚ Austria Arno Haslberger a a Department of Management‚ Webster University‚ Vienna‚ Austria Published online: 16 Jul 2012. To cite this article: Arno Haslberger (2013) Does cross-cultural adjustment coincide with career capital growth? Evidence from Vienna‚ Austria‚ The International Journal of Human Resource Management
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