HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BANKS IN SRI LANKA

W. Heather M. Fernando, Siti Khalidah Md Yusoff, Ali Khatibi, S. M. Ferdous Azam

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The concept of Human Capital (HC) recently received attention from scholars. They hypothesize that HC represents human factor with combined intelligence, expertise and skills of individuals. Human Capital Management is considered as an integrated approach to manage and develop human capabilities thus achieve high performance. Human Capital Management Practices (HCMP), provide with specific competencies that are important to excel best performance in the business world; the war for excellence escalates as the key factor to accomplish the top position among competitors. HC holds transferable characteristics across the jobs, firms or industry. HC has a broad meaning that includes self-generating, expandable, transportable and shareable characteristics that closely linked with the individual economic performance.

 

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