Human Capital Management

Student research project from 2007 in the field of Business Administration - Human Resources and Organisation, grade: 1.0, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mannheim, formerly: Berufsakademie Mannheim, language: German, abstract: 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT OF THE THEME In the course of the change from an industrial to an information and service society, the economic success of a company increasingly depends on intangible resources in addition to purely tangible ones. This can be seen in the fact that future-oriented investors invest in companies that are information- or knowledge-intensive. The value of a company is thus increasingly determined by knowledge capital. One indication of this is that the market value and book value of corporations are continually diverging. The difference between the two values is the so-called intangible assets. These are basically not bi.