
CHAPTER OUTLINE
• Employee as an asset
• Sources of employee values
• Adopting investment perspective
• Factors inuencing investment perspective of the
organisation
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Human capital
• Asset
• Book value
• Market value
• Career plateau
• Counter cyclical hiring
• Utility theory
• Return on investment
• Realistic job preview (RJP)
• Intellectual capital
“The need of the hour is to know that there is no one knowledge
or skill set. Technology and science is constantly changing
around us. Therefore, for an organisation to be sustainable, it
needs to develop a learning mindset.”
AdilMalia, group president
HR at Essar Group
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