Getting the Most Our of Your Workforce – Manage It As Part of Your Intellectual/Intangible Capital

Gary Hamel has a new article on human capital called Management’s Dirty Little Secret. He talks about the very large lack of engagement of most employees (in a global survey by Towers Perrin, only one-fifth of employees are “truly engaged”).

Hamel explores all the reasons that this may be true including ignorance, indifference and impotence.

But his discussion is totally focused around the human capital itself. He doesn’t make a good case for how human capital fits into the value creation process of today’s knowledge-based economy.  Read more