globalgamings

You are sitting at your desk at work and you take a look around you. What do you see? Aside from that coffee stain on the rug that someone needs to tell janitorial about, and a ficus in desperate need of water, you probably see people. Friends, colleagues, employees — human capital? Well, yes. This is not a challenge to individual worth. Of course, employees are not filing cabinets, and they have needs and goals of their own, both within the organization and outside of it, but in spite of its somewhat negative sound, human capital is a simple and empowering concept, originally expressed by the 18th century economist Adam Smith: people acquire practical knowledge, skills and learned abilities that make them productive and potentially valuable to an organization and society in general.

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