HUMAN RESOURCE THEORIES
THE HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY
This was a term popularized by Gary Becker, an economist from the University of Chicago, and Jacob Mincer as it refers to the stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
These resources are the total capacity of the people that represents a form of wealth which can be dIt is an aggregate economic view of the human being acting within economies, which is an attempt to capture the social, biological, cultural and psychological complexity as they interact in explicit and/or economic transactions.
Many theories explicitly connect investment in human capital development to education, and the role of human capital in economic development, productivity growth, and innovation has frequently been cited as a justification for government subsidies for education and job skills trainingirected to accomplish the goals of the nation or state or a portion thereof.