Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

Incentives to Invest in the Human Capital of Temporary Agency Workers**

Growing diffusion of temporary agency work, in conjunction with the growing importance of human capital management, leads to the question who invests in the human capital of temporary agency workers. Therefore, we investigate the parties' incentives to invest and review the small number of existing empirical works. We show that there are incentives for all parties to invest even in general human capital, using the human capital theory and the concept of psychological contracts. Clients' incen...

Editorial: Human Capital Management - a Long and Winding Road

This editorial discusses the rise of human capital management as a broad concept that covers a range of ideas.

Calculating Human Capital: The Market Based Valuation of the Human Resource**

According to the Resource Based View of strategic management, analyzing the human resource of a specific firm in terms of its potential to serve as a source of a sustainable competitive advantage requires an examination of - among others - the resource value. The question of how to parameterize this value, i.e., how to calculate human capital, straightly leads to an integration of RBV reasoning with market based models of the competitive environment at the factor and product market side. Howe...

Human Capital Measurement, Ambiguity, and Opportunism: Actors Between Menace and Opportunity**

nder the growing influence of economic normative thoughts (as for example the spread of shareholder value philosophy in the 1990s) and therefore under pressure to justify themselves, human resource management professionals are searching for concepts to measure the effects of their decisions and activities on business objectives. Especially, the concepts of human capital measurement attract far-reaching attention. However, that performance measurement of human resource management faces conside...

The Theory of Real Options As Theoretical Foundation for the Assessment of Human Capital in Organizations**

The human capital represented by corporate employees involved in the information and knowledge economy is becoming an increasingly central value-creating factor in global competition. However, in contrast to other value-creating factors, human capital is more difficult to measure, evaluate and manage. Due to human capital's great importance for economic value creation, a series of studies on human capital evaluation have been published during the last few years. This paper discusses why so ma...

Human Capital Management: The German Way**

The German discourse on Human Capital Management (HCM) has a long history which resulted in the manifoldness of notions connected with HCM. The exact specification of the meaning of HCM basically depends on the frame of reference used: the frame of the past, of the present or of the future. The present article which concentrates on the German aspects of the HCM debate is aimed at systematizing this discourse by outlining the past and present HCM development in Germany as well as its future pe...

Humankapital Und Lokale Arbeitsmärkte - Eine Theoretische Analyse von Investitionsanreizen

Humankapital und lokale Arbeitsmarkte - Eine theoretische Analyse von Investitionsanreizen dissertarion, by Patrick Herbst, is reviewed.

Probleme Der Unternehmensbewertung in Der Praxis. Berücksichtigung von Humankapital, Synergien Und Flexibilität

Probleme der Unternehmensbewertung in der Praxis. Berucksichtigung von Humankapital, Synergien und Flexibilitat, by Boris Nieland, is reviewed.

Einführung in Den Berliner Balanced Scorecard Ansatz. Ein Weg Zur Wertorientierten Performancemessung Für Unternehmen

Einfuhrung in den Berliner Balanced Scorecard Ansatz. Ein Weg zur wertorientierten Performancemessung fur Unternehmen Hampp, by Wilhelm Schmeisser, Falko Schindler, Lydia Clausen, Martina Lukowski, and Bennet Gorlitz, is reviewed.

Humankapitalberechnung Zwischen Markt- Und Ressourcenorientierung. Eine Axiomatische Integration

Humankapitalberechnung zwischen Markt- und Ressourcenorientierung. Eine axiomatische Integration, by Roman Bechtel, is reviewed.

Book Reviews

Kompetenzkapital: Verbindungen Zwischen Kompetenzbilanzen Und Humankapital

Kompetenzkapital: Verbindungen zwischen Kompetenzbilanzen und Humankapital, edited by Joachim Hasebrook, Olaf Zawaki-Richter and John Erpenbeck, is reviewed.

Unternehmensbewertung Auf Der Basis von Humankapital

Unternehmensbewertung auf der Basis von Humankapital, by Michael Gebauer, is reviewed.

Human Capital Management

The German discourse on Human Capital Management (HCM) has a long history which resulted in the manifoldness of notions connected with HCM. The exact specification of the meaning of HCM basically depends on the frame of reference used: the frame of the past, of the present or of the future. The present article which concentrates on the German aspects of the HCM debate is aimed at systematizing this discourse by outlining the past and present HCM development in Germany as well as its future pe...

Human Capital Management in Deutschen Unternehmen. Eine Studie von Gallup Und the Value Group

Humankapital und lokale Arbeitsmarkte - Eine theoretische Analyse von Investitionsanreizen dissertarion, by Martin Durndorfer, is reviewed.

Personal-Rating Und Personal-Risikomanagement

Personal-Rating und Personal-Risikomanagement, by Uwe D Wucknitz, is reveiwed.

Humankapital Des Gründers Und Erfolg Der Unternehmensgründung

Humankapital des Grunders und Erfolg der Unternehmensgrundung, by Petra Moog, is reviewed.