Journal of Yaşar University

Yazarlar: Mehmet OZAYDIN, Emine ILHAN, Mehmet BAYRAK

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DOI:10.19168/jyu.28151

Anahtar Kelimeler:Investors in People (IIP),Intellectual Capital,Human Capital,Corporate Performance,Knowledge-Based Economy

Özet: Recent develeopments ongoing global economy triggered to international competitiveness. In this manner, as major component of knowledge-based economy and intellectual capital, importance of human capital increased. Particularly, developed economies that realize the situation, encourage life-long education and learning to add value their human capital. Investors in People (IIP) was developed in 1990 by the National Training Task Force, with expert input from stakeholders, to set out a national framework aiming to link the processes of setting business objectives with staff development to improve business performance. The framework indicators were developed from an examination of the internal practices of some of the UK‟s leading companies. (Gloster et al., 2010, 1) In addition to cover corporate priorities and purposes in public services, companies, SMEs and other foundations, IIP focuses human oriented management strategy by increasing motivation, developing skills and shares corporate vision and values with all level of workers in UK. IIP assumes that high level of workers motivation leads to improve corporate performance. In this study, we aim to research corporate functions and potential benefits of IIP by examining the examples of world countries

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