Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / This dissertation is a qualitative and quantitative research effort aiming to establish the meaning of, and the form(s) that human capital and human capital investment, traditionally business-oriented concepts, take in an institution of higher education. The literature review provides an extensive background of human capital and human capital investment theory and theorists. It presents a case study completed at a small college combining interviews, survey administration, and analysis to formulate hypotheses about the nature of human capital investment in institutions of higher learning. The interviews provided rich data through specific examples of how employees at the college defined human capital investment. Analysis of the interviews resulted in the formation of six human capital dimensions, one dimension unique to higher education institutions. A preliminary human capital investment survey was created and quantitative measures were able to discriminate one interpretable factor, similar to one dimension created from the interviews. The factor encompassed items that were related to the moral involvement (Etzioni, 1961) of the employees. This lead the researcher to believe that human capital investment in this higher education institution is different than in corporations. Further research is encouraged to validate this hypothesis and to continue to promote discussions about human capital investment in institutions of higher education.

This study by the human capital point of view, discuss on the nursing professional human capital, and its investment and return as well as nursing competence. Effective samples from 25 different level teaching hospitals amounted to 2,101. In this cross-sectional research, development "nursing competence" scale, by items analysis and explorations as well as confirmed factors analysis, extracted into six factors, named for: integrated care plans, care interventions and communication, self-growth and professional development, management, and coordination and teaching competence, modified to 33 questions items, Cronbach ' s alpha value for 0.885~0.937. Developed evaluation scale for clinical ladder system by 18 items, including 2 factors, personal and professional growth and organizational resource factors, Cronbach ' s alpha values was .875 and .967. Use statistical software Spss 14 and Mplus to test of multivariate and cross-level analysis. The result was that "nursing clinical level" is a very good indicator to the human capital, will affect the "clinical ladder investment evaluation" and "competence"; " Clinical ladder system "will affect the" nursing competence ". Regulation effect of organizational factors, "resource from organization" may affect the relationship of "nursing clinical ladder systems evaluation and nursing competence ". "Hospital grading" has parts of impact on nursing competence. Nurse is worthy human capital, that individuals and organizations should continue to invest obtain the best value for return.

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Whenever someone starts a company from scratch there is a great chance he or she (the entrepreneur) looks for funding. People who fund entrepreneurs and start-­‐ups are usually venture capitalists or business angels. Whether it is one or the other these people want to invest wisely. However without last year’s report piling up at the reception of this start-­‐up another approach is necessary. This master thesis focuses on how valuation is possible without haveing financial data. The main focus the thesis is to find whitch personal attributes you should look for in a successful future entrepreneur.

Thesis (MBA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / This research examines the effect of human capital investment on the firm’s performance in South African companies. This research is important given that the human asset has been proven to be one of the most important assets in the organisation and therefore this research set out to examine whether human assets actually contribute to the performance of the firm in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Social Responsible index (SRI). Therefore the objective of this research was to examine the relationship between human capital investment and firm performance in terms of sales turnover, share price and net profit. Secondary data on human capital investment and companies’ performance (sales turnover, net profit and share price) were collected from integrated report archives of the 28 best performing companies in the JSE SRI Index for the six years from 2010 to 2015. The theoretical foundation was on the human capital theory and related previous literature. The research adopted a quantitative paradigm and applied the regression statistics, which were analysed with the aid of the excel software. Findings from the regression analysis indicate p value of 0.04 for HCI and sales turnover, p value of 0.69 for HCI and the share price and p value of 0.16 for HCI and net profit. This therefore, means that, within the sample of companies, there is a significant relationship between human capital investment and sales turnover of firms and no significant relationship between human capital investment and share price, and net profit of companies. This finding indicates that the result may change from negative to positive with a longer period of data. Over the long term companies that invest in HC would experience profitability (within a range of 10 to 13 years) (Blundell et al, 1999).This means that future research should use a longer period of data and include more companies outside of the JSE SRI Index companies. The research recommends that there is a need for companies to invest in human capital to improve companies’ performance and to win customers’ confidence.

In a developing oil-based economy like Libya the availability of finance is largely affected by the availability of oil revenues which are subjected to disturbances and shocks. Therefore, the decision to save and invest a certain ratio of the country's aggregate output is, to large extent, determined (and affected) by the shocks in the oil markets rather than the requirements of economic development. In this study an attempt is made to determine the optimal rate of saving and investment, both defined as a ratio of the aggregate output, according to the requirements of economic development. For this purpose, a neo-classical Ramsey-type model for Libya is constructed and applied to obtain theoretically and empirically the optimal saving and investment rate during the period (1965-1991). The results reveal that Libya was investing over the optimal level during the oil boom of 1970s and less than the optimal level during the oil crisis of 1980s. In addition, an econometric investigation of the determinants of actual investment by sector (agriculture, non-oil industry, and services) is carried out in order to shed lights on how possible it is for Libya to adjust actual investment towards its optimal level. It is found that, as expected, the most important factor which can be used in this respect is the oil revenues or, generally, the availability of finance. In addition, the study reveals that investment in agriculture is associated, during the period of study, with a very low marginal productivity of capital whereas marginal productivity was higher in both non-oil industry and services. Finally, the study investigates also the future potential saving and investment rates and concludes that the economy, which has already reached its steady state, can be pushed out towards further growth if the economy can be able to increase the level of per worker human capital, proxied by the secondary school enrolment as a percentage of population.

In an attempt to transition from its oil-based economy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is taking further steps towards building a knowledge-based economy. Saudi universities play a pivotal role toward the country’s attempts to achieve the desired sustainable economic growth. And because knowledge production is dependent on the human capital embedded in faculty members working at theses universities, the recommendations of the Saudi National Science and Technology Policy stressed the importance of enhancing research skills of faculty members and researchers at public universities using different means and initiatives. However, a little is known about the impact of the implemented initiatives to promote research on the actual research outcomes of faculty members working at these universities. This study examined the impact of research promoting practices, and faculty personal characteristics (i.e., age, gender, marital status, academic rank, citizenship, and origin of PhD degree) on the levels of faculty research productivity at four Saudi Arabian public universities: King Saud University (KSU), King Abdulaziz University (KAU), King Khalid University (KKU), and King Faisal University (KFU). All PhD holder faculty members working at these universities were included in the sample of the study. A self-administrate web-based survey questionnaire was used to collect data for this study. Out of 7072 distributed questionnaires, 389 answered questionnaires were used for the data analysis. Multiple regression results revealed that the following research-promoting practices have positive and significant relationships with faculty research productivity: supportive collegial environment, the high perception of the academic editing and translating services, the positive perception of the research funding process, the rate of participation in collaboration programs, and conference attendance. Faculty’s perception of the role of research centers and research financial incentives revealed reverse relationships with certain types of faculty research productivity. Among the personal characteristics of faculty members, full professors were found to have the highest levels of research productivity. Citizenship (tenure status), and origin of PhD degree were found to have positive relationships with certain types of faculty research productivity. Male faculty were found to have more publications in refereed journals compared to female faculty. Also, older faculty were found to have more publications in refereed journals compared to junior faculty.

Motivating employees is one of the management top priorities nowadays. Motivated employees are less likely to leave the company, which leads to lower turnover rate which in turn can lead to lower costs for the company. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how organizations can increase employees’ motivation and lower employee turnover by using reward packages.

Submitted by Lucas Finamor (lucasfinamor@gmail.com) on 2017-04-20T18:24:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_lucasfinamor_deposito.pdf: 362061 bytes, checksum: 1f0de232cf4dab414dc463b783afdf21 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2017-04-20T18:35:43Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_lucasfinamor_deposito.pdf: 362061 bytes, checksum: 1f0de232cf4dab414dc463b783afdf21 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-20T18:37:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_lucasfinamor_deposito.pdf: 362061 bytes, checksum: 1f0de232cf4dab414dc463b783afdf21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / Este estudo utilizar o programa “Jovem de Futuro”, uma intervenção experimental em escolas brasileiras de ensino médio, para estimar o impacto da qualidade da educação no acesso ao ensino superior e ao mercado de trabalho formal. Nossos resultados indicam que os alunos de ensino médio respondem com mais e melhores matrículas no ensino superior após um aumento na qualidade da educação no ensino médio. Um ambiente escolar melhor aumenta a probabilidade dos estudantes em (i) ir para o ensino superior, (ii) ser aceito em universidades públicas e em cursos de alta qualidade e seletivos, (iii) de estarem estudando em tempo-integral. Estes efeitos parecem ser intermediados pela admissão ao ensino superior através de políticas de ações afirmativas (cotas). Uma redução nas opcões de trabalhar e apenas trabalhar (não estudar) também são detectadas. Estes resultados podem ser interpretados como evidências sugestivas da existência de restrição à crédito ou de heterogeneidade nos returnos à educação. / This study makes use of the “Jovem de Futuro” program, an experimental intervention in Brazilian public high schools, to estimate the impact of quality of education on college and labor market entry. Our results indicate that high school students respond with more and better college enrollment after an increase in the quality of high school education. A better high school environment boosts the probability of students (i) to attend college, (ii) to be accepted into public colleges and into high quality and selective majors, (iii) and to be studying full time. These effects seem to be intermediated with admission through affirmative action policies (quotas). A reduction in working and only working (not studying) status is also detected. These results can be interpreted as suggestive evidence of the existence of credit constraints or heterogeneity in the returns to schooling function.

Same, but different? A comparison of the integration experiences of refugees and guest worker migrants in Germany Abstract The increasing number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany over the past years have not only sparked an emotional public debate on immigration and societal membership, but have also proven to be a major challenge for policy-makers. Although the volume of refugee migration is indeed unprecedented in Germany, the country has had significant experience with receiving and integrating newcomers in its recent past: the post-war economic boom has led to the recruitment of millions of foreign workers, so- called Gastarbeiter. A non-negligible share ultimately settled permanently, but their integration process was not without its challenges. This paper argues that Germany's guest worker experience offers valuable insight into current integration processes in the German context. To make this existing knowledge accessible, this work uses a historical approach to identify the main elements that have shaped the integration experiences of guest workers in Germany, tied in with an econometric examination assessing the main factors in turn associated with the economic integration of the current refugee cohort. Comparison of the results suggest that a range of obstacles faced by guest workers and their...