Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between intellectual capital and organizational innovation in Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) through a case study at KPC on the employees of the corporation (The study population was 2,180 respondents and the sample size was 335...

Human resources are very important in a business; however, the return on investment in human resources is longer than in fixed assets, so entrepreneurs frequently consider how much to actually invest. This article, based on primary research, examines the motivations for investment when a 20%...

The havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitality businesses across the world affected the human resource skills of the industry to the extent that managers and industry experts are still finding difficult how best to upgrade the skills of their workforce and enhance their capability to...

This study explores mediating role of human capital between strategic human resource management (SHRM) and firm performance. Some HR scholars, such as Takeuchi, Jiang, and Boon found mediating role of human capital in this relationship. Human capital is firm’s stock of skills and knowledge....

This paper analyses the relationship between economic growth measured in GDP per capita and human development measured in HDI for South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) for the period 1995-2018. The result shows strong positive correlation between...

Human resources can provide a competitive advantage to firms, but we still know little about how newly-founded ventures start mobilizing these resources. Given the central role of entrepreneurs' background in designing the strategy of new firms, we investigate whether and how startup experience,...

Human resources (HR) represent a crucial resource of enterprises. This especially applies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in which HR can create a competitive advantage and affect survival and development. Changes in the business environment, the need for new knowledge, skills and...

Data collected with the Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) is used to study the association between management practices and firm productivity, and to examine whether human capital intensity acts as a moderator variable for this relationship. A comparison of how well...

Talking about leadership is in line with followers' confidence in the credibility and integrity of a leader in an organization. The qualities of a leader are not only based on the language of his words, but also the language of his body which must conform to what is implied in his mind and soul,...

We investigate how alignment between firm and individual-level human capital resources influences firm performance. We argue that a high degree of alignment between the firm and individual levels increases human capital utilization, coordination, and transfer. Drawing on Utah residential real...

Purpose: This study seeks to explain the outcomes and role of dynamic capabilities (DCs). To explain the outcomes, we study the relationship between new product development (NPD) (an example of DCs) and metaflexibility. To explain the role of DCs, we study how human resources and operating...

Today is the era of organizations where various types of organizations are present. To ensure the proper functioning of these organizations we need the human resource department (HR) to help it. In this age of technological advancements, Human Resource can play a big role. In this paper, we have...

This study assesses the impact of human resource managers on the effectiveness of hotel branding with reference to Jordanian hotel industry. The study followed a cross-sectional design in which data was collected through a questionnaire-based survey. Subsequently, the collected data were...

Increasingly, firms are considering the adoption of new work practices, such as problem-solving teams, enhanced communication with workers, employment security, flexibility in job assignments, training workers for multiple jobs, and greater reliance on incentive pay. This paper provides...

Human Capital Management (HCM) is responsible for managing the people’s dimension within the organizations. This study has been conducted to examine the HCM practices in Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar. This study has tried to include all possible parameter for analyzing the HCM...

This is a short article describing Digital transformation as a change-oriented approach that leverages new way of doing the business along with existing businesses across the globe. In prevalent business situations, there is huge transformation of business across industry. The most important...

The concept of productivity was originally given by economists like Adam Smith, David Ricardo and J.S Mill as early as in the 18th century. The Classical economists who originated this concept of productivity had Technocrats like Taylor who gave practical slant to productivity in his ‘task...

This paper applies the familiar theoretical distinction between general and specific training to the empirical task of estimating the returns to in-company training. Using a firm-level dataset which distinguishes between general and specific training, we test for the relative effects of the two...

In the human resource-based view of an organisation, resource heterogeneity of the firm provides sustainable competitive advantage. The two core variables that define the resource heterogeneity are the content capital (human capital) and the contextual capital (organisational and managerial...

In the transition to a market economy, the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of change, with excess supply of some industrial skills coexisting with reports of skill shortages by many enterprises. This paper uses data from the Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and...

Introduction: In the pursuit of human flourishing -- PART I: NEUROSCIENCE AND HEALTH -- PART II: ORGANIZATION AND POLICIES -- PART III: CARE AND FLOURISHING -- PART IV: ARTS, FASHION AND LITERATURE -- Conclusion – What we have learnt form multidisciplinary views on Human Flourishing -- List of...