Human capital is a term used by HR to refer to the value of employees, when their skills, knowledge and ability are assessed.
Human capital reporting allows HR to measure and set out the value of human capital within the employer.
Personnel Today's petition to include meaningful HR data in company reports has generated a huge response, with more than 300 signatories already signed up.
Members of the government taskforce created to highlight the importance of HR to business performance have insisted they are happy with draft regulations for company reporting - even though many of their recommendations were ignored.
The government's Operating and Financial Review regulations are out for consultation until 28 February. They virtually ignore recommendations for organisations to measure and report on their people policies.
A quoted company takes over a financial recruitment agency. Some 18 months later, most of the staff have gone. Shareholders have lost out and should have been told about the company's ability, or in this case inability, to manage people.
The Employers Organisation for Local Government has been awarded an international gold standard for its graduate mentoring programme.
Senior figures from the HR and business worlds are backing Personnel Today's call for the government to include people information in forthcoming company reporting regulations
'I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff for all their hard work'. This is all we'll still find in an average company report about that most important asset: people (Personnel Today 15 February)
HR Hartley on human capital management
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The government-sponsored Accounting for People taskforce report promised so much. Join our call for employee information to be included in company reporting legislation
Timeline to the implementation of the Operating and Financial Review regulations from 1985 to April 2005
Past responses to the Accounting for People Taskforce and its recomendations as Government ignores human capital management in draft Operating and Financial Review regulations
HR professionals must demand that the Government includes more people information in forthcoming company reporting regulations, otherwise the profession risks being completely sidelined
It should have been HR’s defining moment. At last there was a chance to demonstrate the link between people policies...
Who has signed up to our petition requesting the government reconsider its proposal not to force organisations to report on human capital in Operating and Financial Reviews?
