Human Capital Development; If this is set up in a worksheet it will make much more sense

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Human Capital Concept Worksheet

In this era of high business competitiveness, organizations operate in a dynamic and changing environment and consequently they have to be able to adapt to stay ahead of the aggressive competition.

Organizations today recognize that human resource (HR) is their key asset to gaining an edge over competition and achieving organizational success and effectiveness. Thus, human resource management (HRM) has now become an emerging field in the business world and a key ingredient for staying abreast of competition.

InterClean, Incorporated

InterClean, Inc. is a major player on the sanitation scene; future profitability hinges on fulfilling the emerging need. Currently, the sales force excels at demonstrating and selling product, but under the newly proposed solutions/service model, representatives will be grouped into multifunctional teams prepared to support InterClean's high-quality service (Scenario, 2006). As the scenario states InterClean has been evolving in response to changes that are governing the environments safety.

While the safety of the environment has created more work for the customers, it has also created new opportunities for InterClean. The goal of the company is to provide a full spectrum of cleaning services and solutions that will become the major avenue for sales (Scenario, 2006). The organizations structure will have to be geared around the new vision of the company. The human resource department will need to assist at determining if the sales and marketing team have the skills in place that will enable the company to make an effective transition (Scenario, 2006).

Human Capital Concepts Worksheet

Concept: Application of Concept in the ScenarioReference to Concept in Reading

Strategic impact of the human resource issues on organizational effectiveness

InterClean does not have a list of written standards.

InterClean is acquiring EnviroTech and some of their employees. This will allow them to develop...