“Adaptive organizations choose to invest in people, to consider people as human capital and worth investments of various kinds, rather than as costs to be minimized. This choice…recognizes the reality that the demand for qualified knowledge and service workers exceeds the supply in many labor markets and will continue to do so for some time to come” (Burud & Tumolo, 2004).
“Human capital is productive wealth embodied in labour, skills and knowledge” (United Nations).
Leveraging the new human capital: Adaptive strategies, results achieved, and stories of transformation. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Publishing.
Human capital. Term. (n.d.). In UN Data Glossary. Retrieved from http://data.un.org/Glossary.aspx