HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTIGATION AND IDENTIFICATION ITS KEY CRITERIA OF THE ARTICLE

In the knowledge-based economy the crucial elements are  people, holders of valuable human capital,  the key corporate asset and driving force of progress and innovation. With the growth of importance of knowledge and quality requirements the demands on the knowledge, skills and abilities of the workforce are increasing, competition in the labour market is growing and the ways and methods of working with people have lost their functionality.

Experts believe that the knowledge economy is in the third stage of the human civilization development. Its onset and gradual formation of accompanying material changes after the agrarian and industrial revolution. Human society is facing many serious changes in their understanding of previously unknown phenomena and learns the appropriate action. Globalization, rapid technological progress, expansion of information and communication technologies, a constant change, the need for lifelong learning and other features of this new economic environment were crucial to change perhaps all areas of human activity.

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