Getting People Involved: The Benefit of Intellectual Capital Management for Addressing HR Challenges.

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the benefits of intellectual capital assessment for facing current challenges of human resources work and organizational development.Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes findings of studies on challenges in HR work and maps them with features of intellectual capital assessment methods. It is thus a theoretical paper, based on practical experience, and findings of practice‐oriented studies. It can serve as the basis for formulating new hypotheses to be further investigated and discussed.Findings – There is a considerable overlap of HR challenges and potential benefits of IC assessment in several areas of human resources' work, closely interlinked with organizational development.Research limitations/implications – The findings of this paper may stimulate research on organizations as social systems and in applied research on human resources. It provides a starting point for further investigation of psychological, social and organisational success factors and to t...