Investing in Healthy Human Capital
作者:
Marc Berger,
Robert Howell,
Sean Nicholson,
Claire Sharda,
期刊:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(OVID Available online 2003)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 12
页码: 1213-1225
ISSN:1076-2752
年代: 2003
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Although the value of human capital is not captured on company balance sheets, it may account for about half of the gap between a company’s market value and book value. Yet, many companies do not focus comparable scrutiny on human capital management as compared with other large assets, nor do they systematically measure its output (ie, productivity). Methods are emerging to enable employers to assess productivity losses, including absenteeism and presenteeism, and to understand the associated costs (ie, direct medical costs, total productivity loss). This will permit employers to assess the value of programs to enhance health and productivity. We contend that the effective workforce is probably decreased by 5% to 10% because of health problems. We believe that employers who increase their investments in healthy human capital now will emerge tomorrow as the companies leading the gains in US productivity.
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