THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT ON BUSINESS SUCCESSES

THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT ON BUSINESS SUCCESSES
 
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the study
The acquisition of educational training, improvement in health care delivery and expansion of R&D, constitute human capital development of any nation and it is always critical factors in the economic development of that nation. It is based on this premise; Abiodun (2009) opined that Human resources constitute the ultimate basis for wealth creation that engenders national economic development. According to Kofi(2001), Education though regarded as one of the components of human capital, is a transformational tool on which rest the foundation of freedom and sustainable development. For national economic policies, goals and objectives to be attained, effective, proficient and adept human resource are vital components that cannot be overestimated. This is because human beings constitute a vital part of any nation, thus, acts as building blocks and backbones on which the level of productivity in any economy is determined.
Human capital development according to Ogunjiuba, (2013) is described as a means of realizing the long-term economic development of a country. This is so because it helps to sharpen the peoples’ potentials by refining their ideological, productive, and educational competences. This implies that the empowerment of the people is imperatives because it can enable them to participate actively in their own development. Human capital development is also a means for enhancing the skills, knowledge, productivity and inventiveness of people through a process of human capital formation (i.e. formal education, training and retraining of the labour force).
It has therefore been globally recognized according to Folloni&Vittadinni, (2010) that Human capital is one major factor that is responsible for economic wellbeing of the people if properly channeled by the economic stakeholders. Ogunjiuba, (2013) added that human capital can be termed as the acquired and useful skills and abilities of a society. The importance of human capital development to economic growth has been seen as strategic to the socio-economic development of nations. These include education, health, Research and development (R&D) etc. The development of human capital is therefore crucial because it ensures that the nations’ human resource endowment is refined -through knowledge acquired from the education sector, skills- through vocational education and entrepreneurship training, productivity- through on the job training and