Valuation of Human Capital Quantifying the Importance of an Assembled Workforce /

• Main Author: Merriman, Kimberly K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Personnel management.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Human Resource Management.

This book addresses the gap between the espoused importance of organizational human capital and how it is actually reported and assessed. It also discusses the current and potential uses of human capital measurement and a way for HR to position itself among other business functions such as finance,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Workers as an Asset vs. Cost
• 2. Cost Approach to Value
• 3. A Closer Look at Cost Approach Assumptions
• 4. Income Approach to Value
• 5. Market Approach to Value
• 6. Sustaining Human Capital Value
• 7. Leveraging Human Capital via Organizational Social Capital
• 8. Other Quantitative Views of Human Capital.