The ontogenesis of human capital in an enterprise

Abstract

The management of the company traditionally faces the task of increasing the effectiveness of human capital (HC), its timely transformation, and the early accumulation of the necessary human resources. In this regard, the purpose of this work was to establish a rational set of transformations that HC goes through from its inception to the end of its existence. The human capital of an enterprise in the work is understood as a combination of the corporate human capital of the organization and the individual human capital of its employees. The methodological basis of the study was the four-component system economic theory, the evolutionary theory of the firm, in particular, the features of the life cycles of organizations (LCO) and, finally, the theory of human capital. The involvement of these scientific approaches made it possible to demonstrate that the evolution of human capital in the correct version (during the transition from one stage of the life cycle to another) occurs synchronously with the change in the management tasks of the enterprise that arise at each stage of the life cycle of the organization. They determine the priority requests to the elements of the human capital, leading to the rotation of the latter and the selection of the most demanded among them for the corresponding stage of the life cycle. From a scientific point of view, the main result of the work was the identification of unified key stages that make up a consistent cycle of development of the human capital of an enterprise (determining its evolution), as well as the establishment of the positions of corporate and individual human capital, the most focused on solving the problems of the corresponding stage. Verification of the results obtained was carried out on the example of the evolution of the basic elements of the enterprise’s human capital — corporate culture and management style. The conclusions drawn are intended to help the management of companies to determine the components of human capital, which are mainly in demand at the corresponding stages of the life of the organization, and to choose in a timely manner the ways to increase the potential and efficiency of personnel.