Emerging organizations' characteristics as predictors of human capital employment mode: A theoretical perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil C. Bryant ◽  
David G. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Employment Mode ◽  
Mode A

An Exploration of the Relationships among Specific Human Capital, Information Structure and Innovation Pattern

2011 ◽  
Vol 225-226 ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Ai Hua Wu ◽  
Wen Lei Ge
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Transaction Cost Theory ◽  
Organizational Pattern ◽  
Specific Human Capital

The paper discussed the relationships among specific human capital, information structure and innovation pattern. The organizational pattern of technological innovation is called innovation pattern in short, which includes two typical patterns: internal and external innovation from the perspective of transaction-cost theory. Information structure includes horizontal and vertical information structure, and the degree of human capital specificity is different in different enterprises. Based on a detailed analysis to the connotations of specific human capital, information structure and innovation pattern, the paper analyzed the relationships of them from theoretical perspective, and considers that enterprise’s horizontal information structure corresponds with special human capital and internal innovation pattern separately; while vertical information structure corresponds with versatile human capital and external innovation pattern separately.

scholarly journals Human Capital and English Language Proficiency in the Chinese Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Luo ◽  
Shawn P. Daly
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Chinese College Students

The employment problem of college graduates has evoked concern around the world, which is particularly prominent in China in recent years. At the same time, English language proficiency of Chinese college students has been emphasized within their university academic requirements as well as from prospective employers. The consequent market pressure on Chinese college students to obtain language qualifications has created an environment where not only the utility, but also the symbolic value of English proficiency has become essential. Human capital theory describes the complex connection between language proficiency and employment, as a foreign language skill, English is similar to other human capital and has the potential for economic value. From the theoretical perspective for relationship between English language proficiency and employment of college graduates based on human theory, recommendations are made for further both scholarly research and practitioner policies, namely: National College English Teaching Syllabus, Regulations for Full-time Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree-granting, and Regulations for the Graduation Project.

scholarly journals Lokalizacja firm i zachowania przestrzenne pracowników sektora informatycznego (na przykładzie poznańskiego obszaru metropolitalnego)

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
International Project ◽  
Spatial Behaviour ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Catching Up

In the contemporary world, areas characterised by the development of the information economy and society are of particular importance. This article has two goals: a theoretical and an empirical one. From a theoretical perspective, an attempt is made to answer the question of how the growth of the IT sector changes the traditional concepts of industrial location and regional development. The empirical part presents the preliminary results of a research carried out under the international project “Accommodating Creative Knowledge: Competitiveness of European Metropolitan Regions within the Enlarged Union” (ACRE). They show the state, dynamics and spatial structure of the analysed sector as well as the spatial behaviour of its employees in the Poznań metropolitan area. The article concludes with a distinction of two development pathways of the IT sector: catching up with the more advanced Western economies and societies, and utilising the endogenous human capital.

Human Capital Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-150
Author(s):  
Mazen Joureih
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Intangible Asset ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Bridging Concept ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Capital Development

The main purpose of the chapter is to provide a contemporary view of human capital (HC) based on recent research and from a theoretical perspective. Based on this, the chapter demonstrates the significance of individual knowledge, skills, and qualifications—human capital—for organizational outcomes and consequently economic growth. Although the concept of HC can be traced back to the work of Schultz with a considerable body of literature, the inherent dilemma with HC is that, unlike the organizational capital that a firm possesses, HC is an intangible asset that can simply leave and never return. Recently, an emerging stream of literature has attempted to unify both the individual and organizational level perspectives of HC and examine how they are related to competitive advantage. Given these considerations, in this chapter, HC will be viewed as a bridging concept where HC serves as a link between human resource (HR) practices and organizational performance in terms of building a worker as an asset. The chapter also presents the key approaches to HC measurement.

Immigrant redistribution and life course trigger events: Evidence from US interstate migration

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon F. De Jong ◽  
Deborah Roempke Graefe
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Concentration Data ◽  
Family Level ◽  
History Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Trigger Events

Our focus in this paper is on the impact of life course trigger events demonstrates that the life course theoretical perspective provides relevant explanations for immigrant interstate relocation decisions in the United States (US). Utilizing longitudinal individual- and family-level migration, human capital, and life course transition data from the 1996-1999 and 2001-2003 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, integrated with state economic conditions and immigrant co-ethnic population concentration data, we apply a discrete-time event history approach to estimate departure relocation decision models for immigrants. The results provide evidence that family life course trigger events exert independent and more robust effects on the redistribution of immigrants than alternative individual and family-level human capital explanations.

Examining the Human Resource Architecture: The Relationships Among Human Capital, Employment, and Human Resource Configurations

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Lepak ◽  
Scott A. Snell
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Contract Work ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Employment Mode ◽  
Human Resource Architecture

In this study we examined the characteristics of human capital as well as the human resource (HR) configurations used for employees in four different employment modes (knowledge-based employment, job-based employment, contract work, and alliance/partnership). Results from 148 firms show that the strategic value and uniqueness of human capital differs across these four employment modes. In addition, each employment mode is associated with a particular type of HR configuration (commitment-based, productivity-based, compliance-based, and collaborative).

Vulnerability and resiliency implications of human capital and linked inequality presence denial perspectives: Acknowledging Zigler's contributions to child well-being

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Nichols Lodato ◽  
Jennifer Hall ◽  
Margaret Beale Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract Edward Zigler's groundbreaking research on child development resulted in the historic Head Start program. It is useful to examine the theoretical implications of his work by applying a human development theoretical perspective. Phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST) is a strengths-based theoretical framework that engages the variability of resource access and coping strategies that promote positive identity development for diverse children. While skill acquisition is a key focus of human capital theory's engagement of early childhood needs, this article highlights the on-going status of human vulnerability that undergirds identity development over the life course. The authors note that “inequality presence denial” combines with high-risk contexts, framed by geography and psychohistoric moments (e.g., The Great Recession, COVID-19), to alter diverse children's developmental pathways. The acknowledgement of “morbid risk” motivates the urgency for research that builds upon Zigler's innovations and privileges human development imperatives. The case study explores these concepts by examining the challenges and assets available to mothers in a low-income community. The article's closing notes developments in the field of economics that ameliorate human capital theory's conceptual limitations, underscoring human development's theoretical strength in motivating research and policies that are maximally responsive to children's positive identity development.

scholarly journals Application of the Human Capital Life-Course Theory to Understand Generation Y South Africans’ Money Attitudes

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 974-985
Author(s):  
Helen I. Duh
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
Family Experience ◽  
Life Attitudes ◽  
Money Attitudes

The life-course approach is a current use of an interdisciplinary and a multi-theoretical framework to study how childhood experiences, especially family experience affect later-life attitudes and consumer behaviour. One childhood family experience believed to be strongly driving later-life attitudes and values, and studied under the human capital life-course theoretical perspective is family resources received during childhood. This study uses the human capital life-course theoretical perspective to study how family resources received during childhood affect later-life money attitudes of a large and lucrative market segment like Generation Y South Africans, especially as their money attitudes can influence varied consumer behaviour. Survey results from 826 subjects showed that they scored high in the security and budget money attitudes. Family resources received during childhood negatively impacted on their symbolic (status, achievement and worry) money attitudes and had a strong positive impact on their conservative (budget and security) money attitudes.

Human Capital

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Rajaram
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital
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