IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-00750380.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Measuring and fostering human capital : evidence from an action research project

Author

Listed:
  • Laurent Cappelletti

    (ISEOR - Institut de Socio-économie des Entreprises et des ORganisations - Institut de socio-économie des entreprises et des organisations)

  • C. Richard Baker

    (Pôle de Recherche - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School)

Abstract

The action research methodology used in this paper is referred to as "intervention research". In specific terms, it is called the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM). The SEAM approach is both participatory and collaborative. It is a pragmatic oriented action research and belongs to the French action research tradition with roots in the UK and the work of Tavistock. The action research project described in this study was carried out in a company in the security sector in France. The findings of the study indicate that a pragmatic oriented action research methodology such as SEAM may enhance the quality of human resource management and increase the value of human capital. The article also discusses the measurement of human capital during an action research project and the factors which contribute to the sustainable development of human capital.

Suggested Citation

  • Laurent Cappelletti & C. Richard Baker, 2009. "Measuring and fostering human capital : evidence from an action research project," Post-Print halshs-00750380, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00750380
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00750380. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.