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Human capital, occupational status, and social integration of Pakistani immigrants in Germany
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ISBN: 373760181X 9783737601818 9783737601801 3737601801 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kassel, [Germany] : Kassel University Press,


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The Politics of Value : Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy
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ISBN: 022644614X Year: 2017 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires social responsibility and eschews share price as the best metric for success; the emergence of a new group, Slow Money, that fosters peer-to-peer investing; and the 2011 Wisconsin protests against a bill restricting the union rights of state workers. Each case shows how the concrete actions of a group of citizens can prompt us to reflect on what is needed for a just and sustainable economic system. In one case, activists raised questions about the responsibilities of business, in the second about the significance of local economies, and in the third about the contributions of the public sector. Through these movements, Jane L. Collins maps a set of cultural conversations about the types of investments and activities that contribute to the health of the economy. Compelling and persuasive, The Politics of Value offers a new framework for viewing economic value, one grounded in thoughtful assessment of the social division of labor and the relationship of the state and the market to civil society.


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The Human Capital Imperative : Valuing Your Talent
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ISBN: 3319491210 3319491202 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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"Alan Coppin is a rare individual. His experience and insight span private and public sectors, charities, and the Armed Forces. The vital importance of human capital is the thread which has bound all this together. His book is a rich gold mine of data, research, wisdom and anecdote." —Sir Gerry Grimstone, chairman of Standard Life, deputy chairman of Barclays, non-executive director of Deloitte and lead non-executive director at the Ministry of Defence In this new book Coppin and Marriott-Sims, leaders with extensive cross-sector experience, draw on discussions with leaders in the public and private sectors, as well as from charities, the military and trade unions to offer you the ideas and practical applications that have proved effective in ensuring human capital is properly valued and managed. Most business decisions are based on lag data – historical reporting of what happened last month, last quarter or last year. It’s solid, real and comforting. Unfortunately, it’s also not a very good indicator of what might happen next. The best lead data – information with genuine predictive power – comes from understanding your people and what they can deliver. All major organizations claim that people are their greatest asset and yet, at the first sign of problems, the first action they take is to fire people. Why, because employees are also an organisation’s biggest liability in terms of cost – and their cost is much easier to quantify than their value. But, like any asset, human capital will only deliver its full value if it is properly understood, measured and managed. The authors offer you the tools you need to take the issue beyond the HR department and satisfy the number crunchers in the boardroom. With their help, you can make human capital part of the normal financial metrics essential to running a successful organisation. Isn’t it time you understood and managed the metrics that can predict your organization’s future rather than relying on those that simply report on its past?


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Human Capital and Innovation : Examining the Role of Globalization
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ISBN: 1137565608 1137565616 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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The second title in the Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management series, this book explores how human capital contributes to innovation within the context of an inter-connected and globalized world. Investigating globalization as a phenomenon reflected within increasing cross-border flows of goods, services, know-how and talent, Human Capital and Innovation: Examining the Role of Globalization illustrates various facets of innovation at individual, team and organizational level. It highlights the influence of new economic realities, such as technological advances and the rise of emerging economies, on human capital and innovation.


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Human capital and assets in the networked world
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ISBN: 1787432645 1787148270 9781787148277 1787148289 9781787432642 9781787148284 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bingley, UK Emerald Publishing Limited

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This book provides researchers and students in all disciplines of management with a wide-ranging reference, as well as will provide new insights of developing and managing talent in the the new networked economy that could be applied by interested advanced practitioners to augment company success.


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Competing on talent in today's business world : a blueprint for new ways of hiring
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ISBN: 9781527514317 1527514315 9781443895750 144389575X Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,


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Completing Capitalism
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ISBN: 9781626569287 1626569282 9781626569294 1626569290 9781626569270 1626569274 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers,

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Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital. They describe how the model has been implemented in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed financial capitalism's shortcomings, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, field-tested alternative.


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Investing in Public Infrastructure : Roads or Schools?
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ISSN: 10185941 ISBN: 1475598556 9781475598551 147559593X 9781475595932 1475598491 Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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Why do governments in developing economies invest in roads and not enough in schools? In the presence of distortionary taxation and debt aversion, the different pace at which roads and schools contribute to economic growth turns out to be central to this decision. Specifically, while costs are front-loaded for both types of investment, the growth benefits of schools accrue with a delay. To put things in perspective, with a “big push,” even assuming a large (15 percent) return differential in favor of schools, the government would still limit the fraction of the investment scale-up going to schools to about a half. Besides debt aversion, political myopia also turns out to be a crucial determinant of public investment composition. A “big push,” by accelerating growth outcomes, mitigates myopia—but at the expense of greater risks to fiscal and debt sustainability. Tied concessional financing and grants can potentially mitigate the adverse effects of both debt aversion and political myopia.


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Human capital and health behavior
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ISBN: 9781786354662 9781786354655 9781787430310 1786354659 1786354667 1787430316 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bingley Emerald Publishing

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Human capital is embodied in human beings. It embraces the individual's capacity to perform and enjoy activities that provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual's human capital. This volume consists of original theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge of the interdependence between Human Capital and Health Behaviour.

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