Optimizing human capital

Chapter 17 - Workforce: Optimizing human capital. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: Describe how the workforce contributes to profitability, explain how expectations for employees are increasing, explain the impact the workforce has on value, use the customer experience grid to describe the relationship between customers and employees,...

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One focus of this monograph is on how human capital interacts with financial capital. Understanding this interaction helps us to create, manage, protect, bequest, and especially, appropriately consume our financial resources over our lifetimes. In particular, we propose ways to optimally manage our stock, bond, and so on, asset allocations with various types of insurance products. Along the way, we provide models that potentially enable individuals to customize their financial decision making to their own special circumstances....

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Moreover, even if it were established that options increased risk taking, it is not clear whether such an outcome would be desirable or undesirable from the perspective of the shareholders. Risk-averse managers, who hold disproportionate amounts of their financial and human capital in the companies they manage, are likely to take fewer risks than are optimal. This is an agency problem that is likely magnified in companies where top executives enjoy substantial rents from their positions, and have strong incentives not to take risky actions that may get them removed from their positions.

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