background and objectives: working in hospital is stressful, and this may result in deviant behaviors of clinical staff and thus irreparable damages to the patients’ health. it is, therefore, crucial to empower hospital workers in managing job stress to ensure high quality of healthcare. psychological and social capitals have been shown to influence organizational behaviors of the employees. th...

the main goal of this paper is to estimate the level and distribution of human capital (hc) in tehran province, iran. in doing this we have first reviewed theoretical and empirical literature of human capital. and then we used do gum method for estimation of level and distribution of households’ human capital in tehran. the do gum method is based on three old methods of estimation. we used late...

this study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. project manager competencies have been evaluated based on ipma competence baseline (icb) and project manager competency development framework (pmcdf) includes knowledge, sk...

This paper explores ramifications of quasirational behavior in capital markets. Despite the academic literature asserting that financial markets are efficient and humans are rational agents, there is a widespread discontentment among practitioners and a growing body of researchers that neither of those premises is valid. The increasing amount of empirical evidence against perfectly efficient ca...

In developing countries, the experiences of government-led development through heavy loans and grants from international donors have added to records of failure because of centralized system of plan formulation and its implementation through complex bureaucratic structure of government agencies. Realizing the inevitability of active participation of the local communities, the international dono...

human capital has always been of high importance in economic growth literature. in this regard, several studies have tried to explain the role of this variable via the use of different models. the present study, in line with the previous ones, going to estimate the share of human capital in iranian economy production from 1974 to 2011 within the framework of ozawa (1965) and lucas’s (1988) endo...

The main goal of this paper is to estimate the level and distribution of human capital (HC) in Tehran province, Iran. In doing this we have first reviewed theoretical and empirical literature of human capital. And then we used Do gum Method for estimation of level and distribution of households’ human capital in Tehran. The Do gum Method is based on three old methods of estimation. We used late...

human capital has important role on economic growth. this factor can increase labor and capital productivity. it can increase capacity of new technology and reduce criminal participation and improve voters’ political behavior and migration of people with high human capital to another region has effects on region and spatial spillover on other regions. the present study aimed to analyze the dire...

This paper describes a comparative empirical study of the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) capital, human capital and new organizational practices on labour productivity in Greek and Swiss firms. We use firm-level data collected in 2005 through a common questionnaire administered to samples of similar composition (e.g. similar firm sizes, similar sectors), from which we ...

This paper proposes a theory that explains the nature of human capital ownership in the POEs, and argues that the institutional separation of de facto and de jure ownership of human capital from their owners is at the heart of the POE inefficiency. This institutional incompatibility has led to widespread phenomena of individuals using their de facto owned human capital to “capture” the benefits...