| Revista: | Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000294471 |
| ISSN: | 1028-8813 |
| Autors: | Cowell, Noel1 |
| Institucions: | 1University of West Indies, Department of Management Studies, Mona, Kingston. Jamaica |
| Any: | 2007 |
| Període: | Dic |
| Volum: | 32 |
| Número: | 4 |
| Paginació: | 31-56 |
| País: | Barbados |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en español | Human resource management theory predicts that investment in human capital should lead to enterprise competitiveness. Organisations which operate in a highly competitive market environment should therefore be expected to respond by stepped up investment in human capital. Using training expenditure as a proxy, this paper employs data from the 1998 Jamaican National Survey of Workplace Practices (JNSWP) to explore the issue of human resource investment in Jamaican business organisations. We found that expenditure in human resource development was limited, unstructured and unsystematic. Among the possible reasons might be the fact that while the majority of businesses in our sample saw themselves as operating in a competitive environment, most produced for the domestic market and perceived themselves to be performing better than their competitors. In addition, most appeared satisfied with the effect of internal human resource-related variables on their businesses and were focused on other variables such as price and product quality as means of leveraging competitiveness |
| Disciplines | Economía, Administración y contaduría |
| Paraules clau: | Empresas, Recursos humanos, Competitividad, Capital humano, Administración de personal, Prácticas laborales, Jamaica |
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