A STUDY ON INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL IN HRM PRACTICES IN SELECTED INSURANCE COMPANIES OF YEMEN
Keywords:
Human Resource Management, Intellectual Capital, Organizational Performance, Insurance CompaniesAbstract
These days the human factor is receiving great importance and economic wealth is driven more by knowledge and information capital than production process. Intellectual capital of human resource and its elements could be perceived as the source of a company’s fundamental growth to maintain sustainable development. The present paper highlights the overlap relation between intellectual capital and human resource management and practices in the insurance companies of Yemen. A Questionnaire was applied as study tool; it was distributed to key HR-Mangers in the selected companies. The data collected had undergone through Multiple Regression Analysis Model. The study implicitly revealed out that, insurance companies hardly adopt the intellectual capital applications on their human resource management.
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