Employees are ....... Resources ? Capital ? Talent ?

Since the revamp of personnel department into the current forms there has always been a question which has been irking me ? Thanks to Neeyamo for reviving it up and this asks about the basic question of how do organizations look at their employees.

There are the Organizations who look at their employees as resources and the term human resource for those who help the organization in optimum use of this resources who like any other are not abundant


There are the second type of organizations and are emerging more in number who like to look at the people as capital and an investment for the organization and like any investment they want the capital managers to identify unprofitable investments and sort them out or sell them off


Finally the new set which looks at employees as talent and has clear distinctions as
talent Acquisition,talent management,talent development and try to ensure that their organization can have the best talent and enhance them and retain them.

These varied approaches on viewing the people of an organization baffle me. Branding may not make a huge impact on the type of people the organization is employing or its views towards them.

What needs to change is the way the organization looks at the value add from the individual and how it can share its passion of success with its people.

In this regard i would like to bring up about the open Book Management system made famous by Jack Stack where all the employees were stakeholders and dint do a firefighting job but enjoyed their work. That is where i wish people would give optimum performance