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Human Capital & Human Resources

Human Resources (the practice of managing people within an organization) and Human Capital (the economic terms describing the value people bring to the enterprise) offer insights into how people learn, how we work together, and how we create more people-focused organizations to bring more value to organizations. Here is a small sampling of some of the literature and web-available resources for your to learn more about these fields.

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Human Capital in the Business Web by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy. Workforce Online, June 5, 2000. ``Imagine the impact of millions of these fresh-thinking, energized kids, armed with the most powerful human capital in history, hitting the workforce. This wave has just begun. The Net Generation (N-Gen) will transform the nature of the enterprise and how wealth is created, as their culture becomes the new culture of work. This generation is exceptionally curious, self-reliant, contrarian, smart, focused, able to adapt, high in self-esteem, and globally oriente..."

Aligning Human Resources to Business Objectives Lia Smith. American Productivity & Quality Center's Continuos Journey. January 1995.

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.�Increasing Employee Participation. Laurie W. Payne. Continuous Journal. January 1995.

Getting the Most from Your Smartest People: What distinguishes great teams, such as those that made Snow White or built the stealth fighter? They solve problems others deem impossible.Alan Farnham. Fortune. March 17, 1997. ``If two heads really were better than one, nobody would need to read this pair of books, which, from different vantage points, take aim at the same problem: group stupidity. Persons individually smart, when put into groups, have arrived at decisions fabulously dumb..."

Haiku, Cherry Blossoms, Sushi and�Notes? Japan's culture is unchanged by technology. Tom Davenport. CIO Magazine. November 15, 1996. ``I've always suspected that technology by itself doesn't transform the cultures of organizations or societies (or that if it does, it takes decades to work its magic). This belief was reinforced by a recent trip to Japan..."

A New Way to Think About Employees: They are not simply human capital or company assets. Thomas A. Stewart. Fortune. April 13,

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