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I’ve recently been hearing “human capital” thrown around by MBAs
by yunwal 4y ago
I’ve recently been hearing “human capital” thrown around by MBAs
- scruple 4y agoI genuinely hate how MBA-speak has been adopted seemingly everywhere. I truly, truly hate it. I understand and appreciate that we need a concise set of terminology and jargon to have conversations about these things but these words seem specifically chosen to abstract away the human quality of the humans being discussed.
- yamtaddle 4y agoFake-smart business language is a plague. "Per" (worse: "as per"), "utilize" where "use" is more correct. All sorts of absurd euphemisms for "chat" or "meeting" or "talk". It's gross.
- giantrobot 4y agoWell let's take this conversation offline and circle back on this topic.
- pjscott 4y agoThat one has an actual useful definition in economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital
- krageon 4y agoThe term is dehumanising and has no place in adult conversations.
- alistairSH 4y agoSure, and it's use should remain academic. If a manager is using "human capital" as a replacement for their actual team, there's a problem.
- function_seven 4y agoWe've all been using the term "Human Resources" for what, like 20 years now? 30? It's always rubbed me the wrong way. What was wrong with "Personnel"?
- yunwal 4y agoYeah, to be clear, I have no issue with it’s use in macro-Econ, my issue is a C-Suite calling their employees and their specialized knowledge human capital to their faces.