Measuring Human Capital in Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises What Matters?

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 137; no. 2; pp. 605 - 623
• Main Authors: Mubarik, Muhammad Shujaat, Chandran, V. G. R., Devadason, Evelyn S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01.06.2018; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Education; Experts; Human Capital; Human Geography; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industry; Microeconomics; Public Health; Quality of Life Research; Questionnaires; Skills; Small & medium sized enterprises-SME; Social research; Social Sciences; Sociology; Studies; Tenure; Training; Work experience; Work organization; Small and medium enterprises (SMEs); Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Human capital index (HCI)

This study proposes a framework that quantifies and integrates both the tangible and intangible aspects of HC to comprehensively measure the overall level of human capital index (HCI) in small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). Data were collected from 100 SME experts through the use of qu...