The knowledge and skills acquired by a worker through education and experience and used to produce goods and services
Capabilities of the individuals required to provide solutions customers [Thomas A Stewart]
The knowledge, skills, abilities and capacities possessed by people Human capital can be accumulated in many ways, including education, on-the-job training, on-the-job experience, investments in health, outreach and extension programs, life experience, migration, and searching for information about goods, services, employment opportunities, etc
accumulated education and training workers receive that increases their productivity (chapter 9)
the stock of accumulated skills and experience that make workers more productive (Stiglitz and Boadway, 1994) (S2, II 4) chinese | russian
Productive investments embodied in human persons These include skills, abilities, ideals, and health resulting from expenditures on education, on-the-job training programs, and medical care
that which is in the minds of individuals: knowledge, competencies, experience, know-how etc
the capabilities of the individuals required to provide solutions to customers (7)
Productive investments found in Labor Skills, ideals, knowledge, know-how, creativity
A concept popularized by Nobel prize winning economist Gary Becker According to Becker, just as organizations make investments in physical production-related resources like plant or equipment, expenditures in such areas as training and education are investments in human capital which contribute to raises in productivity and earnings
All the expertise, experience, capability, capacity, creativity, adaptability, etc , possessed by the individuals in the organization Source: Department of the Navy IM/IT Workforce Strategic Plan, Fiscal years 2001-2006
- the collective 'assets' and 'wealth' in terms of talents and capacities of a group of individual human beings when viewed as part of the development process